Inländische Kreditexpansion, Vertrauen und der Devisenmarkt: das englische Pfund im Jahre 1976 Dieser Beitrag unternimmt eine eingehende Untersuchung der Gründe für die im Jahre 1976 stattgefundenen großen Schwankungen des Wechselkurses des englischen Pfundes, von denen behaupt werden kann,...

George Zis, David Cobham and Athanasios Papadopoulos. The cost of political intervention in monetary policy. International Finance, 2004, vol. 7, no. 3, pages 471-493. Published by and copyright Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version of this article is available from...

Islamic banking, where fixed interest contracts are banned, needs if it is to be successful to operate within a type of financial system in which bank-industry relationships are sufficiently close and pervasive for profit- and loss-sharing arrangements to be acceptable to both sides. However,...

This short paper use the perspective of the assignment problem to examine the evolution of the workings of monetary policy and the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England over its first 25 years. It outlines how the Bank, and the MPC, came across additional possible objectives and...

This book aims to equip those in, or entering, business to assess the opportunities, limitations and major issues surrounding modern business information systems and to appreciate the way that information systems can aid the realization of business objectives. Providing students with: • Good...

Changes in formal and informal central bank independence (CBI) in France, Italy and the UK in the period from the mid-1970s to the 1990s are examined; the major changes occurred in the 1990s, after the disinflations of the 1980s. Broad trends in the informal independence of central banks, defined...

Whatever happened to the money supply? This book explains how the analysis of monetary and credit aggregates is undertaken at the Bank of England, the European Central Bank and (as an example of a developing country) the Bank of Tanzania. The book also explores how this analysis relates to these...