The Bank of Israel
Volume 1: A Monetary History
1st Edition
Published on 18. January 2007
348 pages
978-0-19-534580-3 (ISBN)
Description
These two volumes were written on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bank of Israel. They recount the monetary history of Israel from 1948, when the country was established (and before) to the present day. Volume I retells Israel's monetary history, analyzes the background of the developments mentioned above, and describes the difficulties in regaining monetary control in recent years. This volume also provides an analytical framework to help understand the monetary developments in the inflationary era and in the disinflation process.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Tables and Figures
- Overview
- Part I: The Formation and Development of the Israeli Monetary System, 1948-73
- 1 Emergence of the Monetary Texture and Macroeconomic Developments, 1948-54
- 2 The Establishment of the Bank of Israel: The Legal and Institutional Framework of Israel's Central Bank
- 3 Groping for and the Emergence of Monetary Policy, 1954-66
- 4 Monetary Policy in a Mobilized Economy
- Part II: Israel's Great Inflation: 1973-85
- 5 Financial Repression
- 6 War and Oil Shock, October 1973-May 1977
- 7 The Liberalization Episode of 1977-79
- 8 Early Attempts at Stabilization
- 9 General Features of the Overall Inflationary Process
- Part III: The Emergence of an Independent Monetary Policy and Macroeconomic Developments after the 1985 Stabilization
- 10 The 1985 Stabilization Policy
- 11 The Consolidation of Moderate Inflation, 1985-90
- 12 The "Russian Immigration Wave" and the New Inflation Step, 1990-94
- 13 Monetary Developments in the Second Half of the 1990s
- 14 The Real Economy Background
- 15 Moving toward Price Stability
- 16 General Features of the Disinflation Process
- 17 The International Perspective
- Appendices
- Notes
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
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