Essay from the 2008 Annual Report, covering five key areas the St. Louis Fed is central to. …

regulations into harmony, and such harmonizing requires extensive international coordination and cooperation. In addition, central …

wholesale networks is that settlement is carried out by exchange of funds held in banks' reserve accounts at a central bank …

the central banks, or their equivalent, in six of the main East Asian developing economies. Some of these economies have … issued by the national government--not the central bank--be developed for the central bank's use in its monetary policy …

Central banks around the world potentially face a skeptical public when they announce a commitment to controlling … inflation. Some economists have argued that, to enhance credibility, central banks should adopt monetary growth rules or other …