TY  - BOOK
AU  - Touffut, Jean-Philippe 
AU  - Touffut,Jean-Philippe
TI  - Central banks as economic institutions
SN  - 1848441088 (hbk.)
U1  - 332.112 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA
PB  - Edward Elgar
KW  - Banks and banking, Central
KW  - Monetary policy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents:PrefaceIntroduction1. Monetary Beliefs and the  Power of Central Banks Andre Orlean2. Monetary Policy in  Germany Since 1948: National Tradition, International  Best Practice or Ideology?Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich3. What  Objectives for Monetary Policy?Benjamin M. Friedman4.  Financial Stability and Monetary Policy: A  FrameworkGerhard Illing5. Coordinating Expectations in  Monetary PolicyStephen Morris and Hyun Song Shin6.  Central Bank Transparency: Where, Why and With What  Effects? Nazire Nergiz Dincer and Barry Eichengreen7.  Global imbalances: Origins, Consequences and Possible  ResolutionsTakatoshi Ito8. Global Imbalances: A  Contemporary `Rashomon' Saga Nouriel Roubini9. Round  Table Discussion: Monetary Policy in the New  International Environment Patrick Artus, Alan S. Blinder,  Willem Buiter, Otmar Issing and Robert M. SolowIndex
N2  - This book examines from a transatlantic perspective how the  central bank has become the bank of banks
ER  -