The Financial History of the Bank for International Settlements by Yago, Kazuhiko - 7/16/2015

New. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), founded in 1930, works as the "Bank for Central Banks". The BIS is an international forum where central bankers and officials gather to cope with international financial issues, and a bank which invests the funds of the member countries. This book is a historical study on the BIS, from its foundation to the 1970s. Using archival sources of the Bank and financial institutions of the member countries, this book aims to clarify how the BIS faced the challenges of contemporary international financial system. The book deals with following subjects: Why and how the BIS has been founded? How did the BIS cope with the Great Depression in the 1930s? Was the BIS responsible for the looted gold incident during WWII? After the dissolution sentence at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, how did the BIS survive? How did the BIS act during the dollar crisis in the 1960s and the 1970s? A thorough analysis of the balance sheets supports the… Read More

Routledge, 2015. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.63 inches.

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Routledge, 2015. Paperback. New. 264 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.63 inches.

Routledge. Paperback. New. 9x6x0.

Routledge, 2013. Hardcover. New. 256 pages. 9.57x6.22x0.83 inches.