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In May 2023, the world's top economic policymakers and academics convened at the Hoover Institution for the annual Monetary Policy Conference. They met at a tumultuous time: the previous year, inflation had surged, and some believed the Federal Reserve was slow to react. What was behind this surge, and why did the Fed fail to forecast inflation, or perceive it when it happened? Participants considered whether the sluggish response made the sit...

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Based on a conference held as part of the US Federal Reserve System's centennial, this book critically evaluates the role of the Federal Reserve System in the international monetary system over the past one hundred years and looks ahead to the challenges it will face under the twenty-first-century fiat standard.

The role of the central bank has become a subject of intense debate in the wake of the recent global financial crisis. In this volume, experts and policy makers discuss what lessons we can draw by examining the evolution of the central bank over the past two centuries.

Distinguished economist Michael Bordo argues for the importance of monetary stability and monetary rules, offering theoretical, empirical, and historical perspectives to support his case. He shows how the pursuit of stable monetary policy produces low and stable inflation, stable real performance, and encourages financial stability.

Brings together discussions and presentations from the Hoover Institution's annual monetary policy conference. The conference participants discuss long-run monetary issues facing the world economy, with an emphasis on deep, unresolved structural questions. The authors ask a range of questions that get to the heart of twenty-first-century monetary policy.

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This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.

Essays from the 2010 centenary conference of the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of American financiers and the US Treasury.

As awareness of the process of globalization grows and the study of its effects becomes increasingly important to governments and businesses (as well as to a sizable opposition), the need for historical understanding also increases. Despite the importance of the topic, few attempts have been made to present a long-term economic analysis of the phenomenon, one that frames the issue by examining its place in the long history of international int...

The importance of international considerations in the US Federal Reserve System's deliberations has become more and more important over time as global financial crises and events create ever stronger repercussions in the US economy. This book critically evaluates the role of the Federal Reserve System as a player in the international monetary system over the past one hundred years, starting with its initial responsibility under the gold standa...

Throughout their long history, the primary concern of central banks has oscillated between price stability in normal times and financial stability in extraordinary times. In the wake of the recent global financial crisis, central banks have been given additional responsibilities to ensure financial stability, which has sparked intense debate over the nature of their role. Bankers and policy makers face an enormous challenge finding the right b...

Since the end of the Great Recession in 2009 the central banks of the advanced countries have taken unprecedented actions to reflate and stimulate their economies. There have been significant differences in the timing and pace of these actions, and they have had spillover effects on the strategies of other advanced countries. This book focuses on these issues.

Bordo's classic essays on the gold standard and related regimes based directly or indirectly on gold convertibility.

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This book reassesses Western Europe's miraculous economic recovery from World War II, exposing the role of international institutions.

Western Europe’, s recovery from World War II was nothing short of miraculous. From the chaos of the war and the crisis of 1947, Europe moved directly to the most rapid quarter-century of economic growth in her history. The contributors to this volume seek to identify the sources of this singularly successful recovery. That all European countries shared in the miracle suggests that its roots may lie at the international level. The chapter...

This important contribution to comparative economic history examines different countries' experiences with different monetary regimes.

Bordo's classic essays on the gold standard and related regimes based directly or indirectly on gold convertibility.

Between 1914 and the present several monetary regimes gradually moved away from the gold standard, with varying success in maintaining price stability and credibility. This book presents ten studies which combine historical narrative with econometrics to analyze the role of credibility in four monetary regimes.