Monetary Policy
FRBSF Economic Letter - Stock Market Volatility
RESEARCH - In this Economic Letter from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco the author surveys the academic literature on the properties and causes of stock market volatility, focusing on the debate on whether the stock market varies excessively,…
A new policy divide across the Atlantic
ARTICLE - Their analysis was so similar: the US Federal Reserve said on Tuesday that "inflation and inflationary expectations remain well contained"; Wim Duisenberg, the European Central Bank's president, concurred yesterday when he talked about "reduced…
CentralBankNet Monday Special Feature
SPECIAL FEATURE - The Federal Reserve boldly sliced half a point off interest rates last week but the Bank of England and ECB held firm. In this weeks Special Feature CentralBankNet looks at how the markets reacted to the decisions and whether the…
Bernanke - Milton Friedman's Ninetieth Birthday
SPEECH - In the speech 'On Milton Friedman's Ninetieth Birthday' made on 8 November, Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve said to the assembled guests including Milton Friedman that the Federal Reserve takes responsibility for the Great Depression, "You…
Minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee
MINUTES - The Federal Reserve on 7 November released the minutes of its FOMC meeting of 24 September. Gramlich and McTeer dissented from the vote to hold rates constant, preferring to ease monetary policy at this meeting. The Committee believed that the…
RBA Statement on Monetary Policy, November 2002
REPORT - The Reserve Bank of Australia released its November 2002 Statement on Monetary Policy on 11 November. In the statement the RBA divide the year into two distinct phases with emerging optimism characterising the first half. However the second…
BIS Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - BIS opens Representative Office for the Americas, 11 November 2002.
Central Bank of Brazil Working Paper
RESEARCH - The paper 'Inflation Targeting in Brazil: Lessons and Challenges' by Andre Minella, Paulo Springer de Freitas, Ilan Goldfajn and Marcelo Kfoury Muinhos assesses the first three years of the inflation-targeting regime in Brazil adopted in July…
Inter-American Development Bank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - IDB Board of Governors re-elects Enrique Iglesias to lead institution, 8 November.
Bank of England is model for 'new' ECB
FRANCE - The path towards Britain's possible entry into the euro will be made much easier by a radical French plan for the European Central Bank to be reformed in the image of the Bank of England.
Tax harmony is on EU agenda, says Giscard
FRANCE - Valery Giscard d'Estaing expects tax harmonisation to appear in the draft constitution being drawn up by the convention on the future of Europe.
Central bank head-China can be 'well off society'
CHINA - Dai Xianglong, governor of the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said on Sunday that China is capable of financing the building of a well-off society in an all-round way.
Central bank chief-no money laundering in Armenia
ARMENIA - "We can state that Armenia is not involved in money laundering," the chairman of the Armenian Central Bank, Tigran Sarkisyan, said at a round table discussion on Friday.
ECB president's wife cancels Israel visit
NETHERLANDS - Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of European Central Bank President Wim Duisenberg, has cancelled a planned trip to Israel and the territories due to pressure from the Israeli Foreign Ministry.
Senior Swedish banker doubtful about EMU timetable
SWEDEN - Eva Srejber has said Sweden cannot enter the EMU currency union as early as 2005 if there is a referendum in the autumn of 2003.
Sveriges Riksbank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Deputy Governor Kristina Persson today, 11 November, held a speech at a meeting in Habo, Jonkoping county, organised by Foreningssparbanken, the Federation of Private Enterprises and the Swedish Shareholders' Association on the theme of …
Poole on the Fed's Role in Community Development
SPEECH - In the speech 'The Fed's Role in Community Development' made on 23 October, William Poole of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis said in March 2003, the Federal Reserve System's Community Affairs offices will sponsor its third academic…
Bank of Canada Working Paper
RESEARCH - Bank of Canada Working Paper by David Andolfatto, Scott Hendry, and Kevin Moran, October 2002. Various measures indicate that inflation expectations evolve sluggishly relative to actual inflation. In addition, they often fail conventional…
Latvia ok's new gov't headed by ex-central banker
LATVIA - Latvia's parliament gave its approval Thursday to a new government headed by former Central Bank president Einars Repse, who vowed to stop corruption in the ex-Soviet Baltic republic.
Bies-Fed monitoring commercial real estate, credit
US - The U.S. Federal Reserve is monitoring rapidly growing vacancy rates in commercial real estate and a surge in consumer credit, Fed Gov. Susan Bies said on Thursday.
Curb inflation, not economy - Tito Mboweni
SOUTH AFRICA - Central bank governor Tito Mboweni sent a strong signal on Thursday that interest rates may have peaked, saying the fight against inflation must not jeopardise the health of the overall economy.
BOK Governor Park to attend BIS meeting
KOREA - Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Park Seung is leaving for Mexico today to attend the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) governors meeting scheduled for 10-12 November in Mexico City, the central bank announced yesterday.
ECB chiefs wife stirs Middle east passions
ARTICLE - When Gretta Duisenberg hung a Palestinian flag from her balcony, her neighbour wrote her a polite complaint. When she agreed to head an organization called "Stop the Occupation," the criticism grew louder.
A government move to clean up loans backfires
ARTICLE - China's four asset-management companies are supposed to be the cutting edge of the government's strategy to clean up the banking system. They may, in fact, end up doing more harm than good--by posing a threat to the health of the body that…