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2. An Overview of Central Banking in the World

Author : Indranarain Ramlall

Published in: Central Bank Ratings

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Central banks constitute core financial institutions usually endowed with price stability function.

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Footnotes
1
For instance, when central banks prepare their financial statements, they convert all their SDRs into their local currency of denomination.
 
2
A chapter in Are central bank balance sheets in Asia too large?, 2012, vol. 66, pp 220–264 from Bank for International Settlements.
 
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Metadata
Title
An Overview of Central Banking in the World
Author
Indranarain Ramlall
Copyright Year
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98713-8_2