Central Bankers are currently facing big challenges in designing and implementing monetary policy, as well as with safeguarding financial stability, with the world economy still in the process of digesting the legacy of the crisis. The crisis has changed central banking in many ways: by shifting...

The number of central banks in the world is approaching 180, a tenfold increase since the beginning of the twentieth century. What lies behind the spread of this economic institution? What underlying process has brought central banks to hold such a key role in economic life today? This book...

Introduction / Charles Goodhart, Daniela Gabor, Ismail Ertürk, and Jakob Vestergaard -- Constraining descretion in bank regulation / Andrew G. Haldane -- Myths and fallacies in the discussion on capital regulation / Anat R. Admati, Peter M. Demarzo, Martin F. Hellwig, and Paul Pfleiderer --...