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One hundred and thirty years of central bank cooperation: a BIS perspective

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Claudio E. V. Borio
Gianni Toniolo (University of Rome II - Faculty of Economics)

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With the insight of 130 years of history, this paper tries to answer three questions: how did changing international monetary and financial conditions shape the targets and tools of central bank cooperation? What factors influenced its intensity? Did a structured organisation, such as the BIS, make a difference to its effectiveness? We show that while central bank cooperation through history was ultimately directed to ensuring monetary and financial stability, the conception of these objectives, the relationship between the two, the balance in their pursuit, and the strategies followed evolved over time reflecting changes in the monetary and financial environment as well as in the intellectual climate. In turn, the intensity of central bank cooperation was influenced by the state of international relations, the prestige and degree of autonomy of central banks and the technical nature of the issues requiring cooperation. We also argue that the BIS made a material difference, at least when conditions allowed.

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Paper provided by Bank for International Settlements in its series BIS Working Papers with number 197.

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Date of creation: Feb 2006
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Keywords: cooperation; Bank for International Settlements; gold standard; Bretton Woods; monetary and financial stability; central bank;

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E50 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - General
F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order; Noneconomic International Organizations;; Economic Integration and Globalization: General
N10 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Growth and Fluctuations - - - General, International, or Comparative
N20 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - General, International, or Comparative
N40 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, and Regulation - - - General, International, or Comparative

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