Policy Department—is part of a larger effort in the Bank to analyze bank regulation and supervision. The authors may be …

Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Why do such crises recur? What is it about the accumulation of bank debt that ….S. banking history, from pre-U.S. Civil War private bank notes issued during the U.S. Free Banking Era (1837-1863), followed by … the U.S. National Banking Era (1863-1914) before there was a central bank, through loan sales, securitization, and the …

institutions: banks and bank management -- Financial industry structure -- Regulating the financial system -- Central banks … reserve and the european central bank -- The central bank balance sheet and the money supply process -- Monetary policy …: stabilizing the domestic economy -- Exchange-rate policy and the central bank -- Money growth, money demand, and modern monetary …

-- Commercial bank operations -- International banking -- Regulation of financial institutions -- Financial institutions -- Thrift …