Book description
The Central Bank Directory remains unchallenged as the only provider of comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date information on all the central banks in a single manageable volume.
Individual entries feature a factual profile of each of the world’s central banks, European national central banks and regional Federal Reserves as well as central banks’ representative offices.
The Directory expertly guides the user through the changing world of central banking to enable them to go quickly to the information they require.
Each entry lists the decision-makers for key institutional functions such as risk management, reserve management, payment systems, financial stability, supervision, IT, legal risk, audit, communications and personnel.
For over two decades central bankers and those who work with them have depended on the Central Bank Directory as an unrivalled source of reliable information on the central banks. It is renowned for its accuracy and its usability.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
The Directory features:
- More contact details than ever before: email addresses, website, telephone, fax, address, etc
- Comprehensive information on heads of key departments
- Staff numbers
- Governors’ terms
- A brief overview of each central bank’s role and responsibilities
- Representative offices
- A concise history of the central bank
- Past governors
- The Central Bank Directory also includes a set of up-to-date comparative tables offering a clear overview of the central banking world.
Tables include:
- Gold and foreign exchange reserves
- Newly appointed governors
- Year of establishment
- Central banks ranked by staff numbers
- Changes in staff numbers
- Staff ratio to population
- Governors’ terms of office
Book details
- ISBN
- 9781902182735
- Publish date
- 23 Dec 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- Size
- 155mm x 235mm
Editor biography
Martina Horáková
Martina Horáková is the Head of Central Banking Advisory and Economic Researcher. She organises annual seminars on central bank governance, management and strategic planning. Martina also contributes to the Central Banking journal and news website CentralBanking.com. Before joining Central Banking Publications, Martina gained a masters degree in development economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Her masters dissertation focused on the costs of foreign-exchange reserves accumulation in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Russian Federation. Prior to that, Martina had studied economics at the Freie Universität Berlin.
