Central Banking at a Crossroads

Europe and Beyond

Edited by Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, Jakob Vestergaard, Ismail Ertürk

Publication date:

01 December 2014

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783083046

This book reflects on the innovations that central banks have introduced since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers to improve their modes of intervention, regulation and resolution of financial markets and financial institutions. Authors from both academia and policy circles explore these innovations through four approaches: ‘Bank Capital Regulation’ examines the Basel III agreement; ‘Bank Resolution’ focuses on effective regimes for regulating and resolving ailing banks; ‘Central Banking with Collateral-Based Finance’ develops thought on the challenges that market-based finance pose for the conduct of central banking; and ‘Where Next for Central Banking’ examines the trajectory of central banking and its new, central role in sustaining capitalism.

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Constraining Discretion in Bank Regulation; 3. Fallacies and Irrelevant Facts in the Discussion of Capital Regulation; 4. Complexity, Interconnectedness: Business Models and the Basel System; 5. At the Brink of Insolvency: Shallow Recapitalization Exercise Fails to Bolster Europe’s Ailing Banks; 6. Bank Resolution in Comparative Perspective: What Lessons for Europe?; 7. Resolving Problem Banks: A Review of the Global Evidence; 8. Bank Resolution in New Zealand and Its Implications for Europe; 9. Collateral and Monetary Policy; 10. The ECB and the Political Economy of Collateral; 11. The Backstory of the Risk-Free Asset: How Government Debt Become “Safe”; 12. Central Banking Post-Crisis: What Compass for Uncharted Waters?; 13. Reconceptualising Central Bank Unconventional Policies: Long Positions on No-Growth Capitalism; 14. The Future Relationship between Central Banks and Governments: What Are Central Banks For?; 15. Is New Governance the Ideal Architecture for Global Financial Regulation?; Contributors; Index

“Focusing on solvency questions, this book provides a representative sample of the current state of debate, a first and useful step in the urgent project of reconceptualizing the role of central banking for the modern world.” —Perry Mehrling, Barnard College, Columbia University