Currency, credit and crisis : central banking in Ireland and Europe /

Currency, credit and crisis : central banking in Ireland and Europe /

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Author / Creator:Honohan, Patrick, author.
Imprint:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
©2019
Description:xvii, 372 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in macroeconomic history
Studies in macroeconomic history.
Subject:
Global Financial Crisis (2008-2009)
Banks and banking, Central -- Europe.
Banks and banking, Central -- Ireland.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Banks and banking, Central.
Europe.
Ireland.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11900371
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Varying Form of Title:Central banking in Ireland and Europe
ISBN:9781108481892
1108481892
9781108741583
1108741584
9781108596039
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"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 crisis from 2010 to 2013 was handled. Drawing on his experiences as Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland and in research and policy work at the World Bank, Patrick Honohan offers a detailed analytical narrative of the origins of the crisis and of policy makers' conduct during its most fraught moments"--
"It would be an understatement to say that Ireland's economic and financial condition in late 2010 was extraordinarily stressed. Numbers at work had fallen by about 15 per cent. The Government's borrowing requirement had been reported at the astonishing equivalent of more than a third of annual national income. Every one of the country's main banks needed a capital injection in order to avoid their insolvency"--
Other form:ebook version : 9781108596039

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