Promoting Global Monetary and Financial Stability

List of graphs and tables; List of contributors; Foreword Agustín Carstens; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; Introduction Claudio Borio, Stijn Claessens, Piet Clement, Robert N. McCauley and Hyun Song Shin; 1. The BIS and the European monetary experiment Harold James; 2. The governance of the Bank for International Settlements, 1973–2020 Catherine R. Schenk; The BIS in pictures, 1973–2020; 3. A theory of everything: a historically grounded understanding of soft law – and the BIS Chris Brummer; 4. Tower of contrarian thinking: how the BIS helped reframe understandings of financial stability Andrew Baker; 5. Exchange rates, capital flows and the financial cycle: on the origins of the BIS view Barry Eichengreen; 6. The Bank for International Settlements: if it didn't exist, it would have to be invented (an insider's view) William C. Dudley; Annex 1. BIS chronology; Annex 2. BIS-based committees: membership, chairs and secretaries, 1962–2020; Annex 3. BIS balance sheet, 1980–2019; Annex 4. Current and former functionaries of the BIS board of directors and BIS management, 1973–2020; Annex 5. Shareholding members of the BIS as on 1 July 2020; Note on sources; Bibliography; Index.