Central banks in the age of the euro
Subtitle: Europeanization, convergence, and power
By: edited by Kenneth Dyson and Martin Marcussen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 451
ISBN-13: 9780199218233
Description: The age of the euro has cast central banks in a newly prominent role in European integration and in macro-economic policy making in Europe. This text examines the effects of the euro as the new European single currency on the central banks of the member states of the European Union.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Age of the Euro: A Structural Break? Europeanization, Convergence, and Power in Central Banking / Kenneth Dyson; title: Pt. I. Changing Context of Central Banking; title: 2. Differentiation in the European System of Central Banks: Circles, Core, and Directoire / Gaby Umbach and Wolfgang Wessels; title: 3. European Central Bank: The Bank That Rules Europe? / David Howarth; title: Pt. II. Eurosystem 'Insider' Central Banks; title: 4. National Banks of Belgium and the Netherlands: Happy with the Euro / Ivo Maes and Amy Verdun; title: 5. Bank of France: The Challenge of Escaping Politicization / David Howarth; title: 6. German Bundesbank: Europeanization and the Paradoxes of Power / Kenneth Dyson; title: 7. Bank of Greece: Latecomer, Uphill Adjustment / George Pagoulatos; title: 8. Banca d'Italia: Between Europeanization and Globalization / Lucia Quaglia; title: Pt. III. 'Temporary' Outsiders: Pace Setters and Laggards; title: 9. Estonia, Hungary, and Slovenia: Banking on Identity / Bela Greskovits; title: 10. Czech Republic and Poland: The Limits of Europeanization / Rachel Epstein and Juliet Johnson; title: Pt. IV. 'Semi-Permanent' Outsiders; title: 11. Bank of England: Learning to Live with the Euro / Charles Goodhart; title: 12. Denmark and Sweden: Networking by Euro-Outsiders / Martin Marcussen; title: Pt. V. Lessons from Non-European Central Banks; title: 13. Political Economy of Central Banking in Australia and New Zealand / Chris Eichbaum; title: 14. US Federal Reserve and the Politics of Monetary and Financial Regulatory Policies / John T. Woolley; title: Pt. VI. Convergence and Divergence; title: 15. Financial Supervision: Internationalization, Europeanization, and Power / Michael Moran and Huw Macartney; title: 16. Monetary Policy Strategies / Iain Begg; title: 17. Scientization of Central Banking: The Politics of A-Politicization / Martin Marcussen; title: 18. Transparency and Accountability / Nicolas Jabko.