This volume explores the Central Bank Autonomy, looking at preferences of central bankers, reserve requirements, open market transactions, credit control, macroeconomic outcomes, policies and capital market flows.

The views in this book do not necessarily reflect those of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.

This volume offers a variety of perspectives on the economic implications of increased central bank communication.

Employing a light and lively writing style, the book starts with the history of central banking in England and then shifts focus to the United States, explains in detail how the Fed works, and covers the Fed's unprecedented activities to ...

Drawn from a 2015 Hoover Institution conference, this book features distinguished scholars and policy makers' discussing this and other key questions about the Fed.

Central Banking Before 1800 reviews these objectives and the financial operations to show that many of today's controversies around central banking date back to the period 1400-1800.

Although little noticed, the face of central banking has changed significantly over the past ten to fifteen years, says the author of this enlightening book.