The Emergence of Modern Central Banking from 1918 to the Present

Carl-L. Holtfrerich, Jaime Reis

Contents: Introduction; Part I: The Origins of Central Banking: Bank of England autonomy: a retrospective, Michael Collins and Mae Baker; Part II: National Experiences with Central Banking: The delayed modernisation of the central banks of France and Spain in the twentieth century, Olivier Feiertag and Pablo Martín Aceña; Post-war central banking reform: a German-Japanese comparison, Carl L. Holtfrerich and Toru Iwami; Central banking in Sweden and Finland in the twentieth century, Tarmo Haavisto and Lars Jonung; The Bank of Portugal's first century: from 1846 to the Second World War, Jaime Reis; The Bank of Italy from its foundation to the 1950s: institutional aspects, Cosma Onorio Gelsomino; The emergence of national central banks in Central Europe after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Aurel Schubert; US and Canadian central banking: the triumph of personalities over politics?, Pierre L. Siklos; The emergence of central banking in Latin America: are evolutionary models applicable?, Carlos Marichal and Daniel Díaz Fuentes; Part III: International Institutions and Central Banking: The International Monetary Fund and central banking, Harold James; Sixty-five years of central bank cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements, Gunther D. Baer; Part IV: The Emergence of Modern Central Banking, 1918 to the Present: Concluding comments, Barry Eichengreen; Index.