The last decades have shown a tendency towards higher central bank transparency. It became customary for central bankers to explain their monetary policy decisions in detail and for them to publish inflation forecasts. This leads to the question of how central bank transparency is entangled with...

Introduction -- Mexico : there's no wall against US financial crises -- Brazil : national politics meets the Federal Reserve meets China -- China : dragon rising -- Japan : conjured money incubator -- Europe Part I : the Trichet files -- Europe Part II : the Draghi files -- Conclusion : the end...

The legitimacy of central banking -- The challenge to the technocracy -- The culture of central banking -- Experts and the public -- Towards financial citizenship and a new legitimacy narrative -- A program for action -- Between the last financial crisis and the next one

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction and overview Philipp Hartmann, Haizhou Huang and Dirk Schoenmaker; Part I. Monetary Economics and Policy: 2. Money: how could economists do without it? Mervyn King; 3. Monetary control in the UK: the impossible dream? Forrest Capie and Geoffrey...