Central Banking Journal - Volume XXVII Number 2
Articles in this issue
Last stand for central bank independence?
Political attacks on Yellen and Carney look like the start of a sustained assault
Ignazio Visco on Italian banks and why the ECB should not be made a ‘scapegoat’ for EMU fatigue
Italian governor speaks out about NPLs, bail-ins and the breakdown of trust in the euro area
Is the Central Bank of Argentina back?
Federico Sturzenegger has made strong progress in tackling runaway inflation
Otmar Issing on why the euro ‘house of cards’ is set to collapse
Euro architect says politicians need to admit there is “no likelihood” of political union
The data deluge
Big data carries great potential, but economists must beware its pitfalls
AnaCredit: banking with (pretty) big data
The supranational credit database in Europe is intended to help policy-makers and banks assess cross-border risk
Harnessing growing data volumes: The St Louis Fed
St Louis Fed officials discuss handling ever bigger, more granular and more global data
Big data in central banking: 2016 survey
Central banks looking to harness big data and improve data governance
Data as a critical factor for central banks
Central banks must industrialise data-handling, says Maciej Piechocki
Evaluating big data capabilities in central banking
Sponsored forum: BearingPoint
IFRS 9 deadline looms
Leadership from frontline central banking departments needed
The arrival of web-first publications
HTML works better than PDFs in the mobile age
Book notes: And the weak suffer what they must?, by Yanis Varoufakis
A persuasively written book that is likely to elicit strong opinions
Book notes: Connectedness and contagion, by Hal Scott
Scott’s argument on the dangers of contagion has many appealing features
Book notes: Achieving financial stability and growth in Africa, edited by Stephany Griffith-Jones and Ricardo Gottschalk
Chown praises this comprehensive review into achieving ‘the impossible’ in low-income Africa
Book notes: The curse of cash, by Kenneth S Rogoff
A well-written book, but weak in its analysis and historical perspective