Comparative History of Central Bank Behavior (eBook)

Consistency in Monetary Policy in the US and UK

John H. Wood (Autor)

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2022
Edward Elgar Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-80392-660-5 (ISBN)

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It is widely believed that central banks have grown (the Bank of England) or were established (the Federal Reserve) to pursue the twin objectives of monetary and price stability. But why should they? Central bankers are people, too, whose behavior is presumably determined, like the rest of us, by their incentives and the information available to them. The author explores this question.

Two sets of data confirm the reservations. Central banks have often worsened, even initiated, monetary instabilities by bailing out the risk-takers and their effects on prices, which depending on the quantities of money created by central banks, have often been catastrophic. The evidence suggests that central bankers have really been in business to support the politically powerful upon whose favors they depend, particularly high-spending governments and needy financial institutions. The book consists of several examples of this behavior and its consistency during wars and financial crises in the UK and US over the course of the last two centuries.

Professors and students of finance will find A Comparative History of Central Bank Behavior to be a compelling and thoughtful exploration of how central banks have historically responded to and influenced financial markets.

Inhalt

Preface
1. Governments and their banks
2. Aristocratic government and the Bank of England during the Age of Reform
3. The commercial crisis of 1847
4. The Bank of England and the Great Depression
5. The Bank of England after the Great Depression
6. American monetary policy in the nineteenth century
7. The Federal Reserve and the Great Depression
8. The Great Recession
9. The politics of famine
10. Endless wars
11. Summary: government and the public
References
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Bankbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-80392-660-0 / 1803926600
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80392-660-5 / 9781803926605