Financial Stability and Central Banks
Recent events remind us how crucial it is that the banking and payments system should be protected from risks and crises. The difficulties that beset Indonesia, South Korea and Thailand in 1997 are a vivid example, as are the acute problems that confronted Russia in 1998, and the chronic financial malaise that underlay Japan’s macroeconomic underperformance throughout the 1990s. Even more dramatic was the banking and economic collapse in the US and much of Europe in the 1930s.
It is a prime responsibility for central banks to try to prevent and contain the financial crises that could precipitate such a calamity. This book, developed from the Central Bank Governors’ Symposium on Financial Stability and written by current policy-makers, offers a highly informed account of contemporary policy issues and explores the legal, regulatory, managerial and economic issues that affect central banks, including:
• banking crises
• regulatory and supervisory regimes
• the role of central banks
• crisis management
• the role of bank capital
• capital flows and capital controls
Financial Stability and Central Banks provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview that will prove invaluable to economists, researchers, bankers, policy-makers and students in this field.