“Central Banks at a Crossroads: What Can We Learn from History?”

That’s the title of a book commissioned by the Norges Bank on the bicentennial of the Bank’s founding, and edited by Michael D. Bordo, Øyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau and Jan F. Qvigstad (published by Cambridge University Press). Here’s the table of contents:

Preface

Michael D. Bordo, Øyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau,

and Jan F. Qvigstad

1 Introduction

Michael D. Bordo, Øyvind Eitrheim, Marc Flandreau,

and Jan F. Qvigstad

2 The Descent of Central Banks (1400–1815)

William Roberds and François R. Velde

3 Central Bank Credibility: An Historical and Quantitative Exploration

Michael D. Bordo and Pierre L. Siklos

4 The Coevolution of Money Markets and Monetary Policy,

1815–2008

Clemens Jobst and Stefano Ugolini

5 Central Bank Independence in Small Open Economies

Forrest Capie, Geoffrey Wood, and Juan Castañeda

6 Fighting the Last War: Economists on the Lender of Last Resort

Richard S. Grossman and Hugh Rockoff

7 A Century and a Half of Central Banks, International

Reserves, and International Currencies

Barry Eichengreen and Marc Flandreau

8 Central Banks and the Stability of the International

Monetary Regime

Catherine Schenk and Tobias Straumann

9 The International Monetary and Financial System:

A Capital Account Historical Perspective

Claudio Borio, Harold James, and Hyun Song Shin

10 Central Banking: Perspectives from Emerging Economies (working paper version)

Menzie D. Chinn

11 The Evolution of the Financial Stability Mandate: From Its Origins to the Present Day

Gianni Toniolo and Eugene N. White

12 Bubbles and Central Banks: Historical Perspectives

Markus K. Brunnermeier and Isabel Schnabel

13 Central Banks and Payment Systems: The Evolving Trade-off between Cost and Risk

Charles Kahn, Stephen Quinn, and William Roberds

14 Central Bank Evolution: Lessons Learnt from

the Sub-Prime Crisis

C. A. E. Goodhart

15 The Evolution of Central Banks: A Practitioner’s

Perspective

Andrew G. Haldane and Jan F. Qvigstad

The book was released at this symposium on the occasion of the 200th anniversary; the official book website is here (some front matter here).