The origins, history, and future of the Federal Reserve : a return to Jekyll Island / edited by Michael D. Bordo, Rutgers University, New Jersey, William Roberds, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bordo, Michael D., editor.

Roberds, William, editor.

Series:

Studies in macroeconomic history.

Studies in macroeconomic history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).

Federal Reserve banks--History.

Federal Reserve banks.

Banks and banking, Central--United States--History.

Banks and banking, Central.

Monetary policy--United States--History.

Monetary policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix 431 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Origins, History, & Future of the Federal Reserve

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book contains essays presented at a conference held in November 2010 to mark the centenary of the famous 1910 Jekyll Island meeting of leading American financiers and the US Treasury. The 1910 meeting resulted in the Aldrich Plan, a precursor to the Federal Reserve Act that was enacted by Congress in 1913. The 2010 conference, sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Rutgers University, featured assessments of the Fed's near 100-year track record by prominent economic historians and macroeconomists. The final chapter of the book records a panel discussion of Fed policy making by the current and former senior Federal Reserve officials.

Contents:

"To establish a more effective supervision of banking" : how the birth of the Fed altered bank supervision / Eugene N. White ; Comment / Warren Weber

The promise and performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last restort 1914-1933 / Michael D. Bordo and David C. Wheelock ; Comment / Ellis W. Tallman

Where it all began : lending of last resort at the Bank of England : monitoring during the Overend-Gurney panic of 1866 / Marc Flandreau and Stefano Ugolini ; Comment / Barry Eichengreen

Volatile times and persistent conceptual errors : U.S. monetary policy, 1914-1951 / Charles W. Calomiris ; Comment / Allan H. Meltzer

Government policy, credit markets, and economic activity / Lawrence J. Christiano and Daisuke Ikeda

Policy debates at the Federal Open Market Committee, 1993-2002 / Marvin Goodfriend

Two models of land overvaluation and their implications / Narayana R. Kocherlakota

Panel discussion, November 6, 2010 / Ben S. Bernanke, E. Gerald Corrigan, and Alan Greenspan.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23495-6

1-107-32674-5

1-107-33245-1

1-107-33650-3

1-107-33484-5

1-107-33318-0

1-139-00516-2

OCLC:

862938515