Nepotism, corruption, conspiratorial concealment, greed and grotesque excesses all combine with what seems to have been a complete lack of appropriate controls and regulatory oversight that eventually distorted a European Utopian banking vision beyond all recognition

Jonathan Macey's recent article quot;Commercial Banking and Democracy: The Illusive Quest for Deregulationquot; offers such a problematic argument for banking regulation that it implies such regulation is losing its intellectual foundation

Closer cooperation between neighbouring countries has throughout the ages been part of their respective political agendas. In many regions of the world, the desire to create efficient economic spaces, and eventually perhaps even political union, has been one of the driving forces behind...

Lehman Brothers’ failure required the Central Banks of the main developed and emerging countries to implement non-traditional monetary policy measures with a degree of coordination, cooperation and pragmatism that finds no precedents in history so as to prevent the deepening of the worst...

The international financial crisis that started in 2007 required the adoption of nontraditional monetary measures by most Central Banks. This paper analyses the recent impact of the crisis (September 2011- October 2012) in the implementation of monetary policy after the worsening of the global...

This paper describes the functioning of a currency board within the socio-economic context in which it operates. Special focus is given to the macroeconomic implications of a currency board system compared to a central bank system. In particular the author describes the principles regulating a...

La importancia de los mecanismos de transmisión de la política monetaria hacen imprescindible un estudio acabado de los posibles canales por los que pueda influir el instrumento utilizado. El mecanismo tradicional de transmisión es aquel en el que un aumento de la tasa de interés busca...

This main sections of this annotated bibliography were prepared by the author between 1998 and 2002. The revisions undertaken until January 2006 are selective and do not claim to be complete. The paper has no official character and merely reflects the views of the author. Its purpose is to...

It is argued that the history of the Australian Commonwealth Notes Issue Board over the period 1920-1924 is supportive of Friedman's contention that the possibility of a genuinely independent monetary authority is illusory. The Board was created as a genuinely independent monetary authority....