Banking and Finance in West Germany (RLE Banking & Finance) (Routledge Library Editions: Banking & Finance) - Hardcover

Francke, Hans; Hudson, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415528585 ISBN 13: 9780415528580

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This is a clear guide to the German financial system. It begins by outlining its historical development, emphasising the growth of close ties between the banking system and industry, and goes on to describe in details the nature of the credit institutions in general and the money and capital markets.

The book emphasizes the crucial role played by the autonomy of the Bundesbank and it explains with clear illustrations the instruments available to it to conduct monetary policy. It analyses the type of monetary target adopted by the Bundesbank in the early 1970s and deals with the ‘transferability’ of the West German financial system to other countries. Wherever relevant, parallels and differences between that system and the ones operating in the US and UK are pointed out.

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Hans-Hermann Francke, Michael Hudson

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415528585
• ISBN 13: 9780415528580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178