Introduction to Central Banking

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Economic Accounts and Financial Systems

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   Pages 1-9Open Access

3. Central Banks

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   Pages 11-28Open Access

4. Conventional Monetary Policy

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   Pages 29-51Open Access

5. Unconventional Monetary Policy

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   Pages 53-65Open Access

6. Financial Instability

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   Pages 67-78Open Access

7. The Central Bank as Lender of Last Resort

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   Pages 79-100Open Access

8. International Monetary Frameworks

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   Pages 101-121Open Access

9. Back Matter

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This open access book gives a concise introduction to the practical implementation of monetary policy by modern central banks. It describes the conventional instruments used in advanced economies and the unconventional instruments that have been widely adopted since the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Illuminating the role of central banks in ensuring financial stability and as last resort lenders, it also offers an overview of the international monetary framework. A flow-of-funds framework is used throughout to capture this essential dimension in a consistent and unifying manner, providing a unique and accessible resource on central banking and monetary policy, and its integration with financial stability. 

Addressed to professionals as well as bachelors and masters students of economics, this book is suitable for a course on economic policy. Useful prerequisites include at least a general idea of the economic institutions of an economy, and knowledge of macroeconomics and monetary economics, but readers need not be familiar with any specific macroeconomic models.

• monetary policy
• implementation of monetary policy
• financial stability
• central bank
• flow of funds
• International monetary frameworks
• open access
• Quantitative Finance

• Institute of Economics and Law, Macroeconomics, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Ulrich Bindseil

• School of Business and Economics, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Alessio Fotia

Ulrich Bindseil joined Deutsche Bundesbank in 1994 and the ECB in 1999. He has been the head of risk management, the head of market operations, and since 2019 the head of market infrastructures and payments. He has been an honorary Professor at TU Berlin since 2010.

Alessio Fotia has studied philosophy at the University of Trento in Italy, and Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is a student in the M.Sc. Economics programme.