Financial Crises, Contagion,
and the Lender of Last Resort - A Reader
Edited by Charles Goodhart,
London School of Economics, and Gerhard Illing, University of Munich
Description
Financial crises have become
more frequent over the last two decades than they were previously. This book illuminates
the fierce debate over how the monetary authorities should handle these crises by bringing
together a selection of the best writings on the subject and by reflecting all viewpoints.
Readership: Financial and monetary economists, commentators on financial subjects,
(central) bankers, financial regulators, ministries of finance, and graduate students in
these areas.
Contents/contributors
1 Charles Goodhart and
Gerhard Illing: Introduction
2 Xavier Freixas, Curzio
Giannini, Glenn Hoggarth, and Farouk Soussa: Lender of Last Resort---a Review of the
Literature
I. Historical Analysis3 Henry
Thornton: An Enquiry into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain
(excerpts)
4 Walter Bagehot: A General
View of Lombard Street (excerpts)
5 Thomas Humphrey and Robert
Keleher: The Lender of Last Resort: a Historical Perspective
6 Michael Bordo: The Lender
of Last Resort: Alternative Views and Historical Experience
7 Richard Timberlake: The
Central Banking Role of Clearinghouse Associations
II. Contemporary Analysis8
Marvin Goodfriend and Robert King: Financial Deregulation, Monetary Policy, and Central
Banking
9 George Kaufman: Lender of
Last Resort: a Contemporary Perspective
10 Fred Hirsch: The Bagehot
Problem
11 Robert Solow: On the
Lender of Last Resort
12 M. J. Flannery: Financial
Crises, Payment System Problems, and Discount Window Lending (excerpts)
13 Charles Goodhart: Myths
about the Lender of Last Resort
III. Bank Runs and
Contagion14 Olivier De Bandt and Philipp Hartmann: Systemic Risk in Banking: a Survey
15 Douglas W. Diamond and
Philip Dybvig: Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity
16 Franklin Allen and Douglas
Gale: Optimal Currency Crises
17 Y. Chen: Banking Panics:
the Role of the First-Come, First-Served Rule and Information Externalities
18 Franklin Allen and Douglas
Gale: Financial Contagion
19 Xavier Freixas, Bruno M.
Parigi, and Jean-Charles Rochet: Systemic Risk, Interbank Relations, and Liquidity
Provision by the Central Bank
IV. An International Lender
of Last Resort?20 Forrest Capie: Can there Be an International Lender of Last Resort?
21 Anna Schwartz: Earmarks of
a Lender of Last Resort
22 Meltzer Report of the
International Financial Institution Advisory Commission (excerpts)
23 R. Brealey: The Asian
Crisis: Lessons for Crisis Management and Prevention
24 Stanley Fischer: On the
Need for an International Lender of Last Resort
25 Curzio Giannini: Pitfalls
in International Crisis Lending
558 pages