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Hungary to buy forint mortgage bonds to spur lending

Financial Stability | 08 Feb 2010 | secure

Move by the National Bank of Hungary highlights concern over return to euro financing, seen as key cause of crisis

Topics: euro, National Bank of Hungary, Swiss franc

Hungary to buy forint mortgage bonds to spur lending
No winners from Redrado’s row

Governance

No winners from Redrado’s row

The Central Bank of Argentina's conflict confronts the country with a Catch-22 situation from which the authorities cannot profit, argues Vladimir Werning, an economist at JP Morgan.

Central Banking | 08 Feb 2010 |secure

 Obama’s proposals – the only game in town

Regulation

Obama’s proposals – the only game in town

President Obama’s radical proposals recognise that the financial lobby can no longer hold society to hostage. They should be welcomed as a result, Robert Pringle, the chairman of Central Banking Publ...

Central Banking | 27 Jan 2010 |secure

Eurozone may need to rethink strategy on Greece

Financial Stability

Eurozone may need to rethink strategy on Greece

Brussels and the European Central Bank have underestimated the potential for contagion from Athens’s fiscal woes, argues Marco Annunziata, the chief economist at UniCredit

Central Banking | 17 Dec 2009 |secure

Inflation targeting remains relevant

Monetary Policy

Inflation targeting remains relevant

Inflation targeting can and should survive recent criticisms, argues Don Brash, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand – the first central bank to introduce the framework

Central Banking | 07 Dec 2009 |secure

Economics

Controls cannot curb currency appreciation

Emerging markets must recognise the need to let their currencies appreciate, Ousmène Mandeng and Jerome Booth of Ashmore Investment Management argue

Central Banking | 03 Dec 2009 |secure

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After the crisis: risk management and investment in the new economic environment.

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Central Banking Vol. XX.II features an exclusive interview with Heng Swee Keat, the managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore, who explains how the city state has responded to the financial crisis.

In conversation with Robert Pringle, Nobel-Prize winning economist Robert Mundell explains why the dollar alone cannot be the basis for the international monetary system.

In a special feature on Asia’s resurgence, Hui Feng reports on the delicate balancing act facing Beijing’s policymakers, Donghyun Park examines how the crisis has impacted the region’s sovereign wealth funds and Rodney Dickens compares the policy responses in Australia and New Zealand.

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