Product details
- Categories: European Central Bank, Finance and Economic Theory
- Publisher: OUP - Oxford University Press
- ISBN: 9780198806196
- Publication Date: 15/03/2018
- Binding: Hardback
- Number of pages: 352
- Language: English
Summary
Central banks came out of the Great Recession with increased power and
responsibilities. Indeed, central banks are often now seen as 'the only
game in town', and a place to put innumerable problems vastly exceeding
their traditional remit. These new powers do not fit well, however, with
the independence of central banks, remote from the democratic control
of government.
Central Banking in Turbulent Times examines
fundamental questions about the central banking system, asking whether
the model of an independent central bank devoted to price stability is
the final resting point of a complex development that started centuries
ago. It dissects the hypothesis that the Great Recession has prompted a
reassessment of that model; a renewed emphasis on financial stability
has emerged, possibly vying for first rank in the hierarchy of
objectives of central banks. This raises the risk of dilemmas, since the
Great Recession brought into question implicit assumptions that the
pursuit of price stability would also lead to financial stability. In
addition, the border between monetary and fiscal policy was blurred both
in the US and in Europe. Central Banking in Turbulent Times asks
whether the model prevailing before the Great Recession has been
irrevocably altered. Are we entering, as Charles Goodhart has
hypothesized, into the 'fourth epoch' of central banking? Are changes to
central banks part of a move away from the global liberal order that
seemed to have prevailed at the turn of the century? Central Banking in Turbulent Times
seeks to answer these questions as it examines how changes can allow
for the maintenance of price stability, while adapting to the long-term
consequences of the Great Recession.
Table of contents
1. Central banking before the Great Recession
1.1: Changing nature and objectives of central banks
1.2: Dominant central bank model before the crisis
1.3: The unsettled issue of financial stability
1.4: Planting the seeds of the Great Recession: macroeconomic, regulatory, supervisory, and intellectual aspects
2. Central banking during the Great Recession
2.1: Monetary Policy
2.2: Financial Stability
3. Central banking after the Great Recession
3.1: Hits to the pre-crisis central bank model
3.2: Was the pre Great Recession central banking model jeopardized?
3.3: Strategic and operational issues
3.4: Central banks in a new regulatory and supervisory landscape
3.5: How wide will the scope of responsibilities of central banks be?
3.6: Possible adaptations to the central banks model