Currency, Credit and Crisis: Central Banking in Ireland and Europe

by Patrick Honohan

Book Overview

The global financial crisis in 2008 brought central banking to the centre stage, prompting questions about the role of national central banks and - in Europe - of the multi-country European Central Bank. What can central banks do, and what are their limitations? How have they performed? Currency, Credit and Crisis seeks to provide a coherent perspective on the functions of a central bank in a small country by assessing the way in which Ireland's financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108481892
• ISBN13: 9781108481892
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"