Monetary Regimes in Transition

Forrest Capie, Bordo Michael D, Capie Forrest

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes. The contributor... Lees meer

An Exchange Rate History of the United Kingdom

Alain Naef

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• How did the Bank of England manage sterling crises? This book steps into the shoes of the Bank's foreign exchange dealers to show how foreign exchange... Lees meer

The Federal Reserve's Role in the Global Economy

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• The importance of international considerations in the US Federal Reserve System's deliberations has become more and more important over time as global... Lees meer

Currency, Credit and Crisis

Patrick Honohan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• The global financial crisis in 2008 brought central banking to the centre stage, prompting questions about the role of national central banks and - in... Lees meer

The Banking Panics of the Great Depression

Elmus Wicker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close historical narrative of... Lees meer

A History of Banking in Antebellum America

Howard Bodenhorn

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This history focuses on the credit generating function of American banks. It demonstrates that banks aggressively promoted economic development rather... Lees meer

Financial Systems and Economic Growth

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Throughout much of the twentieth century, economists paid little heed to the role of financial intermediaries in procuring a beneficial allocation of ... Lees meer

Experiments in Financial Democracy

Aldo Musacchio

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This book is a detailed historical description of the evolution of corporate governance and stock markets in Brazil in the late nineteenth and twentie... Lees meer

Swiss Monetary History Since the Early 19th Century

Ernst Baltensperger, Peter Kugler

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger ... Lees meer

A Monetary History of Italy

Michele Fratianni, Franco Spinelli

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This volume deals with the monetary history of Italy from independence in 1861 to 1992. It provides the first complete analysis of a country that has ... Lees meer

Banking Panics of the Gilded Age

Elmus Wicker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This is the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century. The author has constructed for the first time estimates of bank cl... Lees meer

Central Banks at a Crossroads

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Throughout their long history, the primary concern of central banks has oscillated between price stability in normal times and financial stability in ... Lees meer

The Banking Panics of the Great Depression

Elmus Wicker

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This is the first full-length study of five U.S. banking panics of the Great Depression. Professor Wicker reconstructs a close historical narrative of... Lees meer

The Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Central banks were not always as ubiquitous as they are today. Their functions were circumscribed, their mandates ambiguous, and their allegiances onc... Lees meer

The Changing Face of Central Banking

Pierre L Siklos

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Central banks have emerged as the key players in national and international policy making. This book explores their evolution since World War II in 20... Lees meer

A Monetary History of Norway, 1816-2016

Øyvind Eitrheim, Jan Tore Klovland, Lars Fredrik Øksendal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This book provides a broad overview of monetary developments in Norway over the past 200 years, using a rich variety of graphical illustrations based ... Lees meer

The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931

Aurel Schubert

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Austria played a prominent role in the worldwide events of 1931 as the largest bank in Central and Eastern Europe, the Viennese Credit-Anstalt, collap... Lees meer

Fixed Ideas of Money

Tobias Straumann

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Most European countries are rather small, yet we know little about their monetary history. This book analyses for the first time the experience of sev... Lees meer

A History of Central Banking in Great Britain and the United States

John H Wood

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Central banks in Great Britain and the United States arose early in the financial revolution. The Bank of England was created in 1694 while the first ... Lees meer

The Fed and Lehman Brothers

Laurence M Ball

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• This book will interest scholars and practitioners in economics, finance, accounting and law; all areas in which the Lehman bankruptcy has been a majo... Lees meer

Managing the Franc Poincaré

Kenneth Mouré

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Defense of the franc Poincaré; dominated French economic policy during the Depression. While most countries took their currencies off gold to permit a... Lees meer

Japanese Banking

Norio Tamaki

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• In Japan, as in other parts of the world, banking plays an essential role in economic development. Studying key industries such as banking provides an... Lees meer

Managing the Franc Poincaré

Kenneth Mouré

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Defense of the franc Poincaré; dominated French economic policy during the Depression. While most countries took their currencies off gold to permit a... Lees meer

The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1924-1933

David C Wheelock

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Macroeconomic History
• Today, most scholars agree that mismanaged monetary policy contributed to the length and severity of the Great Depression. There is little agreement, ... Lees meer