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

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

Title remainder

central banking in Ireland and Europe

Statement of responsibility

Patrick Honohan, Trinity College, Dublin

Creator

• Honohan, Patrick

Subject

• Banks and banking, Central -- Europe
• Banks and banking, Central -- Ireland
• Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Language

eng

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"--

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DLC

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illustrations

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Studies in macroeconomic history