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  • 8 - From Banking Office to National Bank

  • from Part II - Specific
  • Edited by Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, Andreas Kakridis, Bank of Greece and Panteion University, Athens
  • Book:
    The Spread of the Modern Central Bank and Global Cooperation
    Published online:
    02 November 2023
    Print publication:
    16 November 2023, pp 197-224

  • Summary

    Establishing the National Bank of Czechoslovakia was the culmination of an eight-year process. Although Czechoslovak representatives had envisaged an independent monetary institution before founding an independent state, it took a long time to realise their vision. The chapter describes events surrounding the creation of the National Bank of Czechoslovakia and shows how ideas about the bank’s structure and constitution developed between 1919 and 1926. It emphasizes external factors that led Czechoslovak politicians and economic policymakers to establish a bank of issue even before joining the gold standard, thus deviating from their original intentions. The chapter then compares the two competing Czechoslovak monetary authorities (Banking Office of the Ministry of Finance and National Bank of Czechoslovakia) and analyses whether the chosen solution helped to maintain the desired independence of the newly established central bank during its first years of its existence (1926-1934).