United Kingdom
Top central bankers admit inflation models fell short
Reliance on Phillips curve and demand-driven models may have created blind spots
BoE’s Mann says UK needs to respond to higher rates abroad
Exposure to global spillovers likely making UK inflation worse, says MPC member
People: IMF names new Asia-Pacific head
New deputy governors in Jamaica and Azerbaijan, and more
BoE opts for 25bp hike as growth disappoints
Weakening economy and high inflation leave policy-makers divided
The signal and the noise: cash forecasting in uncertain times
From big data tools to Arima models and structural time series, cash forecasting methods are evolving. The work could prove critical to the future of cash during uncertain times
BoE finds ‘shortcomings’ in three UK banks’ resolution plans
Central bank’s first resolvability assessment concludes banks can now fail “safely”
Book notes: Two hundred years of muddling through, by Duncan Weldon
Insights into UK economic history offer lessons for today’s policy-makers
Sovereign green bonds: the reserve portfolio’s panacea?
German, Swedish, Danish and UK debt managers speak to Victor Mendez-Barreira about ‘twin bonds’ and other efforts to solve green bond liquidity concerns
BoE paper examines microstructure of UK banking system
Authors stitch together supervisory datasets to study likelihood of crisis
BoE set to gain stablecoin insolvency powers
Government proposal would amend existing rules for dealing with failed payment systems
BoE climate stress test finds impact will fall on bank customers
Sam Woods questions whether capital is “best tool” to address climate change
BoE’s Bailey hits back at monetary policy critics
Facts “simply do not support” argument that central bank was too slow, governor says
BoE’s Pill says UK facing strong ‘inflationary momentum’
Latest inflation forecast “does not make for pretty reading”, says chief economist
Mervyn King says central banks made ‘serious errors’ on inflation
Former BoE governor says UK should raise rates further to curb spiralling prices
The green agenda dilemma
Central banks face a choice over whether to support national energy independence or climate goals, amid calls from some parties for higher inflation targets
People: UK appoints Bank of England MPC member
India names two RBI executive directors; Chilean vice-president to chair Irving Fisher Committee
BoE paper models macro-prudential spillovers
Agent-based model sheds light on how housing market policies affect different groups, authors say
BoE backs cut to insurers’ capital requirements
Post-Brexit move to ease regulations requires tightening of some other rules, central bank says
BoE’s Woods envisages radically simplified capital regime
Prudential regulation head sketches simplified Basel III alternative
BoE paper finds benefits from swing pricing
Cost-benefit analysis suggests net benefit to curbing non-bank liquidity risk through swing pricing
UK faces possible inflation ‘ratchet’ – BoE’s Mann
MPC member says shocks to UK economy have “piled on top of each other”
UK inflation climbs to 7%
Rapid rise in fuel prices pushes inflation to new 30-year high
Mitigating regulatory risks of mobile payments
Third-party payment providers need to give up data to supervisors to prevent fraud
Book notes: Cogs and monsters, by Diane Coyle
Coyle brings much-needed nuance to the debate over the shortcomings of economics