Table of Contents

Hans Tietmeyer: Preface
Otmar Issing: Foreword
Part I: Legacy and Fresh Start
1: Harold James: The Reichsbank, 1876-1945
2: Christoph Buchheim: The Establishment of the Bank deutscher Länder and the West German Currency Reform
Part II: The Central Bank in the Constitutional and Financial Set-up of the Federal Republic of Germany
3: Klaus Stern: The Note-issuing Bank within the State Structure
4: Wolfgang Kitterer: Public Finance and the Central Bank
5: Günter Franke: The Bundesbank and the Markets
Part III: Monetary Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany
6: Manfred J. M. Neumann: Monetary Stability: Threat and Proven Response
7: Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich: Monetary Policy under Fixed Exchange Rates (1948-70)
8: Jürgen von Hagen: A New Approach to Monetary Policy (1971-8)
9: Ernst Baltensperger: Monetary Policy under Conditions of Increasing Integration (1979-96)
10: Rudolf Richter: German Monetary Policy: The Academic Debate
Part IV: Aspects of Monetary Policy in the Two Germanys
11: H. Jörg Thieme: The Central Bank and Money in the GDR
12: Jochen Plassman: The Role of the Bundesbank in Intra-German Payments
13: Manfred E. Streit: German Monetary Union
Part V: The International Scene
14: Jacob A. Frenkel and Morris Goldstein: The international Role of the Deutsche Mark
15: Peter Bernholz: The Bundesbank and the Process of European Monetary Integration

Reviews

This publication well serves its purpose as the compendium of Bundesbank monetary policy and will doubtless become the standard reference book. Financial History Review An impressive and encompassing work, and there is no question that this book will be essential reading in the study of German policy-making. International Finance For those interested in policy-making [in West Germany] - The Bundesbank's Fifty Years of the Deutsche Mark will make fascinating reading. International Finance