This paper reviews 80 years of cooperation among central banks. Diverse modes of collaboration are identified, ranging from simple exchange of relevant informat

Provides new analysis of the spread of central banking beyond Western Europe and North America in the 1920s and 1930s.

Covers the history of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), from its founding in Basel in 1930 to the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1973, with a fo

The twentieth century has seen the rise of modern central banking. At its close, it is also witnessing the first steps in the decline of the role of some of the

Although central banking is today often presented as having emerged in the nineteenth or even twentieth century, it has a long and colourful history before 1800