Monetary policy
Speech by William Poole of the St. Louis Fed Bank
SPEECH - William Poole President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Prepared for Panel on Promoting Economic Growth: What Monetary Policy Can And Cannot Do. National Association For Business Economics 43rd Annual Meeting, New York, New York, 10…
Minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting
NEWS RELEASE - The Bank of England has published the minutes from its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting held on 5 and 6 September.
Report - Central banks did not act together
US - Unlike the co-ordinated monetary policy moves that were the hallmark of international economic co-operation of the 1980s, the spate of interest rate cuts that rippled around the world on Monday and Tuesday was not a pre-arranged exercise by G7…
Bank of England cuts interest rates 0.25%
UK - The Bank of England Tuesday 18 September said it has cut its repo rate to 4.75% from 5.0% at a special monetary policy committee meeting held Tuesday morning.
Bank of England News Release
NEWS RELEASE - Meeting of Monetary Policy Committee, 18 September
Speech by William Poole, St. Louis Fed
SPEECH - William Poole, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis gave a speech at Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois on 5 September.
BoE/ Fed Rate Cut Suggests no coordinated effort
UK - The Bank of England said Monday 17 September that it does not comment on monetary policy decisions carried out by other central banks.
Speech by Sushil Wadhwani of the Bank of England
SPEECH - Sushil Wadhwani, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, deliveved at a CEPR/ESI Conference, Helsinki, 14 September.
Challenges for Japan's Economy and Monetary Policy
SPEECH - Remarks by Sakuya Fujiwara, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan, at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on 25 July.
Turkish c bank to publish inflation report in Oct
TURKEY - Turkey's central bank plans to announce next month future inflation estimates and details of the monetary policy that will back a plan to cut stubbornly high inflation, a senior central banker said on Monday 10 Sep.
Reserve Bank of Australia - Press release
PRESS RELEASE - Statement by the governor, Mr Ian MacFarlane - Monetary Policy 5 September.
Speech by Stephen Nickell of the Bank of England
SPEECH - Speech by Stephen Nickell, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England and Glenda Quintini, Credit Suisse First Boston, to the economics section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Glasgow, 4 September.
ECB press release - Monetary policy decisions
At today's meeting the Governing Council of the ECB took the following monetary policy decisions:
The Monetary Policy of the ECB
RESEARCH - The European Central Bank published 'The Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank' on 28 August.
Federal Reserve Research
RESEARCH - International Finance Discussion Papers, An Empirical Comparison of Bundesbank and ECB Monetary Policy Rules by Jon Faust; John Rogers; and Jonathan H. Wright, August 2001.
Thai MPC to evaluate c bank market actions
THAILAND - Thai central bank Deputy Governor Pakorn Malakul Na Ayudhya said 21 August that when the Monetary Policy Committee meets Aug. 29, it will look into risk management and standards for Bank of Thailand's activity in the foreign exchange, bond and…
Profiles of bank of Japan policy board members
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan (BOJ) today, 17 August, released the minutes of its monetary policy meeting held on 28 June and 12-13 July.
Federal Reserve Bulletin - August 2001
REPORT - The Federal Reserve Board has published its August 2001 Monetary Policy Report to the Congress.
Monetary policy in Thailand, Pridiyathorn Devakula
SPEECH - Pridiyathorn Devakula, The Governor of the Bank of Thailand, gave a speech at the APFA 2001 Conference, Bangkok, 24 July. The speech was titled Monetary Policy in Thailand: Current Challenges and Prospects.
Power of monetary policy is greatly exaggerated
ARTICLE - Greenspan's 10-year honeymoon is over - By Jack Carr, National Post, 1 August 2001.
Comments on the Economy and Monetary Policy
SPEECH - Remarks by J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Washington Association of Money Managers, The Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC, 5 June.
Surprise cut in UK interest rates
UK - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has cut interest rates by 0.25%.
Speech by Svein Gjedrem of Norway's central bank
SPEECH - Speech by Central Bank of Norway Governor Svein Gjedrem at The Norwegian School of Management's Centre for Monetary Economics, 7 June.
Bank set to defy rate cut calls
UK - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to leave UK interest rates unchanged, despite a mixed picture for the British economy. The MPC began its monthly meeting today, 1 August, and is due to reveal its interest rate…