Bücher der Reihe Studies in Macroeconomic History

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the historical experiences of monetary policymaking of the world's largest central banks. Written in celebration of the 350th anniversary of the central bank of Sweden, Sveriges Riksbank. Includes chapters on other banks around the world written by leading economic scholars.

This book will interest scholars and practitioners in economics, finance, accounting and law; all areas in which the Lehman bankruptcy has been a major controversy. It will also appeal to a broad audience who care about the causes of the financial crisis and the role of the Federal Reserve's leaders.

Based on a conference held as part of the US Federal Reserve System's centennial, this book critically evaluates the role of the Federal Reserve System in the international monetary system over the past one hundred years and looks ahead to the challenges it will face under the twenty-first-century fiat standard.

The role of the central bank has become a subject of intense debate in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. In this volume, experts and policy makers discuss what lessons we can draw by examining the evolution of the central bank over the past two centuries.

Between 1914 and the present several monetary regimes gradually moved away from the gold standard, with varying success in maintaining price stability and credibility. This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

This book contains essays presented at the November 2010 conference held to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The final chapter records a panel discussion of Fed policy making by the current and former senior Federal Reserve officials.

Could deflation be worse than inflation? This 2004 collection explores how individuals and policymakers have responded to the phenomenon. Monetary and exchange rate regimes as well as stock market reactions are considered as an important influence upon deflationary trends. The book's coverage ranges from the nineteenth century onwards.

To celebrate the Federal Reserve System's centennial, the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland asked leading monetary historians and macroeconomic economists to address current and recurring economic concerns that confront central banks. The resulting papers cover a wide range of issues and investigate how financial infrastructure shapes economic outcomes.

Between 1914 and the present several monetary regimes gradually moved away from the gold standard, with varying success in maintaining price stability and credibility. This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

This book looks back at the historical experience of central bank cooperation in the western world since the late nineteenth century. It provides a systematic analysis of the nature and characteristics of this form of co-operation and offers a global perspective on what its future might look like.

Could deflation be worse than inflation? This 2004 collection explores how individuals and policymakers have responded to the phenomenon. Monetary and exchange rate regimes as well as stock market reactions are considered as an important influence upon deflationary trends. The book's coverage ranges from the nineteenth century onwards.

During the 1950s and 1960s, research on the prewar British economy was influenced strongly by ideas from Keynesian macroeconomics. It is important to reexamine this period of history, asking to what extent the Keynesian vision offers useful insights into advances in time series analysis as well as developments in macroeconomics to answer this question.

This book looks back at the historical experience of central bank cooperation in the western world since the late nineteenth century. It provides a systematic analysis of the nature and characteristics of this form of co-operation and offers a global perspective on what its future might look like.

This book reassesses Western Europe's miraculous economic recovery from World War II, exposing the role of international institutions and contrasting the very different national experiences. It will be of interest to students of modern European history and to economists.

This book investigates US-UK monetary relations, 1791 to 1931. It presents and examines data on the exchange rate with emphasis on the institutional and legal aspects. It will serve as a Dollar-Sterling handbook for those interested in this important aspect of international monetary history.

These articles by eminent economic historians from the five European colonial powers and from six New World countries focus on the legacy of the Old World fiscal institutions (taxes and expenditures) and monetary institutions (currency and banking) for the New World from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

During the 1950s and 1960s, research on the prewar British economy was influenced strongly by ideas from Keynesian macroeconomics. It is important to reexamine this period of history, asking to what extent the Keynesian vision offers useful insights into advances in time series analysis as well as developments in macroeconomics to answer this question.

This book reassesses Western Europe's miraculous economic recovery from World War II, exposing the role of international institutions and contrasting the very different national experiences. It will be of interest to students of modern European history and to economists.

These articles by eminent economic historians from the five European colonial powers and from six New World countries focus on the legacy of the Old World fiscal institutions (taxes and expenditures) and monetary institutions (currency and banking) for the New World from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

This volume provides a new interpretation of the operation and macroeconomic repercussions of the international monetary system during the interwar years. Each of the eleven essays is explicitly concerned with the role of exchange rates in macroeconomic fluctuations from the American and European perspective. The final essay examines the interwar experience from a long-term perspective.

This book provides a new quantitative view of the wartime economic experiences of six great powers: the UK, the USA, Germany, Italy, Japan and the USSR. The result of an international collaborative project, it embodies the latest in economic analysis and historical research.