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specificallya central bank uses its tools of mon-etary policy—open market operations,discount window lending,changes inreserve requirements—to affect short-tenn interest rates and the monetarybase(curreney held by the public plusbank reserves)in order to achieveinportant policy goals.  \nThere are three key goals of modernmonetary policy.The first and mostimportant is price stability or stabil-ity in the value of money.Today thismeans maintaining a sustained low rateof inflation.The second goal is a stablereal economy,often interpreted as highemployment and high and sustain-able economic growth.Another way toput it is to say that monetary policy isexpected to smooth the business cycleand offset shocks to the economy.Thethird goal is financial stability.Thisencompasses an efficient and smoothlyrunning payments system and the pre-vention of financial crises.  \n# ■ Beginnings\n\nThe story of central banking goes backat least to the seventeenth century,tohe founding of the first institution rec-ognized as a central bank,the Swed-ish Riksbank.Established in 1668 asajoint stock bank,it was chartered tolend the government funds and to act asa clearing house for conmerce.A fewdecades later(1694),the most fanouscentral bank of the era,the Bank ofEngland,was founded also as a jointstock company to purchase governmentdebt.Other central banks were set uplater in Europe for similar purposes,though some were established to dealwith monetary disarray.For example,  \n# A Brief History of Central Banks\n\nthe Banque de France was establishedby Napoleonin 1800 to stabilize thecurrency after the hyperinfation ofpaper money during the French Revo-lution,as well as to aid in governmentfinance.Early central banks issued pri-vate notes which served as currency.and they often had a nonopoly oversuch note issue.  \nWhile these early central bankshelped fund the government'sdebt.they were also private enti-ties that engaged in banking activi-ties.Because they held the depositsof other banks,they came to serve asbanks for bankers,failitating trans-actions between banks or providingother banking services.They becamethe repository for most banks in thebanking system because of their largereserves and extensive networks ofcorrespondent banks.These factorsallowed them to become the lenderof last resort in the face of a financialcrisis.In other words.they becamewilling to provide emergency cash totheir correspondents in times of finan-cial distress.  \n## ■ Transition\n\nThe Federal Reserve System belongsto a later wave of central banks,whichemerged at the turn of the twentiethcentury.These banks were createdprimarily to consolidate the variousinstruments that people were using forcurrency and to provide financial sta-bility.Many also were created to man-age the gold standard,to which mostcountries adhered.  \nThe gold standard,which prevaileduntil 1914,meant that each countrydefined its currency in terms of a fixedweight of gold.Central banks heldlarge gold reserves to ensure that their  \nDecember 20U7  \nOne of the world's forenosteconomie historiaus explainsthe forces behind the develop-ment of modern central banks,providing insight into their rolein the financial system and theeconomy.  \nnotes could be converted into gold,aswas required by their charters.Whentheir reserves declined because of abalance of payments deficit or adversedomestic circumstances,they wouldraise their discount rates(the interestrates at which they would lend moneyto the other banks).Doing so wouldraise interest rates more generallywhich in turn attracted foreign invest-ment,thereby bringing more gold intothe country.  \nCentral banks adhered to the goldstandard's rule of maintaining goldconvertibility above all other consid-erations.Gold convertibility served asthe economy's nominal anchor.Thatis.the amount of money banks couldsupply was co","cbCaiko4CPPxrUx8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiko4CPPxrUx8","pdf",1342064,"English","# Beginnings\n# A Brief History of 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