Monetary Policy
Eddie George doubtful on euro
UK - Sir Edward George, the governor of the Bank of England, has pitched into the ongoing debate about potential British entry into the euro, saying that a single economic policy across Europe was a "disadvantage".
RBNZ Bulletin December 2001
NEWS RELEASE - December 2001 Reserve Bank of New Zealand Bulletin released.
ECB to re-shuffle board member responsibilities
GERMANY - The European Central Bank said on Friday it had changed some of the responsibilities among its six member Executive Board with effect from 1 January, 2002.
Paper by Charles Bean C Economist, Bank of England
SPEECH /PAPER - Paper by Charles Bean, Chief Economist and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Jens Larsen and Kalin Nikolov, Monetary Assesment and Strategy Division at the Bank of England to the Monetary Transmission Network Conference at the…
Bank of England MPC Minutes
MINUTES - Minutes of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Meeting - 4 & 5 December 2001.
UK economy set to outperform
UK - The UK economy grew faster than previously thought during the year to September 2001, according to new official figures.
CentralBankNet report picked up by national press
CENTRALBANKNET EXCLUSIVE REPORT - On Thursday morning CentralBankNet.com's exclusive report, released on CBNet Wednesday night, was picked up by the national press and the story was carried in Thursday's London edition of the Financial Times (page 14).
Euro notes seek forgery protection
EUROPE - Two of Europe's biggest chip developers may be working with the European Central Bank (ECB) to include tiny radio transceivers in high-value euro banknotes.
IMF Working Paper - Contagion and Shifting Risk
RESEARCH - IMF Working Paper - Pure Contagion and Investors Shifting Risk Appetite: Analytical Issues and Empirical Evidence by Manmohan Kumar and Avinash Persaud, September 2001.
B of E - Financial Stability Review, December 2001
NEWS RELEASE - Bank of England Publishes Financial Stability Review, 13 December 2001.
Global '02 econ outlook shaky but not for c banks
ARTICLE - One of the biggest surprises of 2001 was how the global economy's main economic agents responded to signs of recession.
BOE Dec Minutes - MPC Voted 7-2 To Hold Repo Rate
UK - Seven of the nine members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep the repo rate on hold at 4.0% in the Dec. 4-5 meeting, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.
Euro notes can be washed - But not at 90 Celsius
ARTICLE - If you wash your euro notes, make sure you don't do so at 90 degrees Celsius.
Bank of Japan aims for boost
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan has relaxed its monetary policy, providing more cash to the banking sector in a bid to boost the flagging economy.
Last-minute deal on euro seigniorage
EUROPE - At the 11th hour, the governing council of the European Central Bank, has agreed a deal on how to share out the seigniorage profits of the euro. The pain is delayed, but Germany still loses out.
Speech by the Governor of Danmarks Nationalbank
SPEECH - Speech by Governor Bodil Nyboe Andersen of Denmark's central bank at the Annual Meeting of the Danish Bankers Association on 5 December.
Polish fin min seeks central bank truce
POLAND - Polish Finance Minister Marek Belka appears anxious to extend the olive branch in an escalating feud between the government and Poland's central bank over high interest rates and the surging zloty.
Legacy cash spending impact on econ hard to gauge
GERMANY - Trying to pin down the exact boost to the euro-zone economy from spending in undeclared legacy currency ahead of the 1 January introduction of euro notes and coins is proving to be as slippery as tracking such money in the first place.
IMF: World economy to remain weak
US - The world's economies have suffered greatly due to the 11 September terror attacks, but a slow recovery may be under way, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said in issuing a fresh report on the state of the global economy.
Japan ready to bail out banks
JAPAN - Japan's central bank stands ready to bail out the country's ailing banks - but only in the event of a crisis.
Germans snap up euro kits
GERMANY - Euro coins have gone on sale in Germany, accompanied by celebrations in several major cities.
Euro launch boon for US tourists
US - In more normal times, American interest in the introduction of the euro currency might spark a fair amount of attention.
Euro should rise, ECB has no leadership dilemma
GERMANY - The euro's weakness on foreign exchange markets is attributable partly to the fact that the single European currency is young, German Finance Minister Hans Eichel told a newspaper Thursday.
Bank of England/NOP Inflation Attitudes Survey
NEWS RELEASE - This news release describes some of the main results of the Bank of England's November 2001 survey of public attitudes to inflation.