Arbeitspapier
What Do We Really Know About the Long-Term Evolution of Central Banking? Evidence from the Past, Insights for the Present
The ongoing financial crisis is shaking central bankers' certainties about their mission, and a rethinking of such mission can greatly benefit from a non-finalistic reassessment of how central banking has evolved over the centuries. This paper does so by taking a functional, instead of an institutional approach. The survey covers the provision of both microeconomic (financial stability) and macroeconomic (monetary stability) central banking functions in the West since the Middle Ages. The existence of a number of important trends (some unidirectional, some cyclical) is underlined. The findings have implications for the current debate on the institutional design of central banking, both in the U.S. and in the eurozone. Historical evidence suggests that neither changes in the organizational model of central banks nor government deficit monetization should necessarily be seen as evil; what is crucial to the success of any solution, is that the institutional agreement backing the existence of money-issuing organizations must be credible. The appendix provides a case study on Norway.
- ISBN
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978-82-7553-625-7
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011/15
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
Economic History: Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations: General, International, or Comparative
Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: General, International, or Comparative
- Thema
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central banking
monetary policy
financial stability
institutional design
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Ugolini, Stefano
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Norges Bank
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Oslo
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2011
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Ugolini, Stefano
- Norges Bank
Entstanden
- 2011
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