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The Mechanism of Monetary Control

In: The Discount Houses in London

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  • G. A. Fletcher

    (University of Liverpool)

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Ever since the London bill dealers were granted discount accounts at the Bank of England, in the aftermath of the crisis of 1825, the discount houses have occupied a peculiar and key position in the mechanism through which the Bank might seek to control the private-sector banking system.1 In the present chapter this role of the discount houses is examined in the context of the controversy, which was ‘important for the development of British monetary economics’2 for a period of a decade and a half from the mid-1950s, over the question of central bank control of the level of bank deposits.3 It has already been shown (see Chapter 7, above) that the reserve ratios originally adopted voluntarily by bankers, as a matter of professional prudence, were later imposed by the monetary authorities as possible means of regulating bankers’ operations in order that they might help to implement, or at least that they might not frustrate, official policy.

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  • G. A. Fletcher, 1976. "The Mechanism of Monetary Control," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Discount Houses in London, chapter 12, pages 177-197, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-01974-8_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01974-8_12
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