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

ISBN-13: 9781108741583 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 392 str.

Patrick Honohan (Trinity College Dublin)

Opis

Ireland's spectacular financial bubble, bust and recovery has been an important strand of the global financial crisis. In this book, an experienced insider provides a detailed narrative of Ireland's crisis and recovery within a discussion of what central banks do well, what they do poorly and how policymaking should adjust.

Recenzje

'A fine account of these extraordinary events.' Colm McCarthy, Sunday Independent

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Currency: 1. Fixed or floating; 2. Toward the euro; 3. The euro area crisis; Part II. Credit: 4. Safe and sound banking; 5. Faults in financial services; 6. The role of the central bank; Part III. Crisis: 7. The guarantee; 8. The race to stabilize the banks; 9. The bailout; 10. Cleaning-up; Part IV. Taking Stock: 11. The European decade of bank failure; 12. The Irish economy in boom and bust; 13. Lessons learnt.

O autorze

Honohan, Patrick Patrick Honohan is Honorary Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin, Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).