Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. From War Financier to Bankers’ Bank -- Chapter 3. Central Banks under the Gold Standard -- Chapter 4. The Federal Reserve: A Unique Institution -- Chapter 5. From War to War: 1914-1939 -- Chapter 6. Post-war Progress: 1946-1960 -- Chapter 7. The 1960s:...

1. Introduction -- 2. Do capital inflows relieve banks’ credit constraints and boost credit growth? Evidence from credit conditions and bank credit risk -- 3. Credit conditions and the amplification of macroeconomic responses to unexpected shocks: Implications for monetary policy -- 4. Output...

1. A Retrospective on the 2008 Global Financial Crisis- Robert Z Aliber and Gylfi Zoega -- Part I: The Source of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 2. The Financial Alchemy that Failed- Marcus Miller -- 3. Prudential Regulation and Capital Controls- Michael Dooley -- 4. Three Grand State...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part 1: The Regulation of Cross-Border Finance -- Chapter 2: Financial Regulation and Systemic risk -- Chapter 3: The Regulation of Globalized Finance -- Part 2: Cross-Border Regulation in the EU: The Passport and the Equivalence Regime -- Chapter 4: The Passport...

Ein vergleichsweise neues Thema hat die Finanzmärkte erreicht: der Klimawandel. Auf verschiedenen Veranstaltungen von Aufsichtsbehörden stand dieser Aspekt im Zentrum. Die Bedeutung des Klimawandels im Hinblick auf seine Auswirkungen auf das Finanzsystem wird durch zahlreiche Studien der Green...

Introduction -- 1 What is money? -- A History of Money and Banking -- 2 Money from the very beginning -- 3 Banks enter the scene -- 4 The dawn of modern banking -- 5 The creation of a paper currency -- 6 Modern banking comes of age -- 7 The role of banks in a modern economy -- II An Analysis of...

Convergence to the Centre -- Financial Markets: Banks Capital Markets -- Firm Size, Productivity, EU-Funds and Corruption -- Labour Markets: Structural Characteristics and the Impact of Two Crises -- Transport and Mobility -- Monetary, Macroprudential, and Fiscal Policy -- Green Economy: Energy,...

This open access book gives a concise introduction to the practical implementation of monetary policy by modern central banks. It describes the conventional instruments used in advanced economies and the unconventional instruments that have been widely adopted since the financial crisis of...

This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high...