Establishing a Central Bank : Issues in Europe and Lessons from the U.S. (Paperback)

List of figures; List of tables; Preface; List of conference participants; 1. Introduction; Part I. The Design of a Central Bank: 2. Designing a central bank for Europe: a cautionary tale from the early years of the federal reserve system; 3. The European Central Bank: reshaping monetary politics in Europe; 4. The ECB: a bank or a monetary policy rule?; Part II. Transition from National Central Banks To A European Central Bank: 5. Hard-ERM, hard ECU and European Monetary Union; 6. Voting