Designing Central Banks: 55 (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)

ISBN 10: 0415696542 / ISBN 13: 9780415696548

Published by Routledge, 2011

About this Item

This text looks at independence, how central banks can actually influence their respective economies, goals responsibilities and governance with contributions from such scholars as Marc Flandreau, Anne Sibert and Forrest Capie. Editor(s): Mayes, David; Wood, Geoffrey E. Num Pages: 272 pages, 13 black & white illustrations, 19 black & white tables, 13 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: KCBM; KFFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 430. . 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Central Banks: 55 (Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415696542
• ISBN 13: 9780415696548
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The activities of central banks are relevant to everyone in society. This book starts by considering how and why in general central banks evolved and specifically the special aspects of the contribution of the Northern European Central Banking Tradition. With that foundation, the book will then turn to a series of contemporary themes. Firstly, this book looks at independence, how central banks can actually influence their respective economies, goals, responsibilities and governance.

This collection of papers, formulated from the joint conference of the Bank of Finland and the Deutsche Bundesbank in November 2007, will help motivate continuing research into the institutional design of central banks and promote a better understanding of the many challenges central banks are facing today. This volume gives a detailed perspective on the benefits of price stability and central bank independence and, due to the advances in macroeconomic theory, has prompted a substantial rethink on central banks’ institutional design.

With contributions from such scholars as Anne Sibert and Forrest Capie and a foreword by Erkki Liikanen and Professor Axel A. Weber, this volume will be useful reading for monetary economists around the world as well as all those with an interest in central banks and banking more generally.

About the Author

David Mayes is David Mayes is Advisor to the Board of the Bank of Finland in Helsinki.

Geoffrey Wood is Professor of Economics at Cass Business School, UK.