Monetary Policy
BIS Quarterly Review June 2002 - Press release
PRESS RELEASE - International banking and financial market developments, 27 May.
BIS Quarterly Review June 2002
REPORT - International Banking and Financial Market Developments, 27 May.
ECB Press release
PRESS RELEASE - Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American central banks held in Madrid on 23 and 24 May 2002, 24 May.
ECB Press release
PRESS RELEASE - Code of Conduct for the Members of the Governing Council, 24 May.
European Central Bank Publication
REPORT - The Eurosystem's terms of reference for the use of cash- recycling machines by credit institutions and other euro area institutions engaged in the sorting and distribution of banknotes to the public as a professional activity, 24 May.
Code of conduct for the ECB's Governing Council
REPORT - Code of conduct for the Members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, 24 May.
Bank of England News release, 27 May
NEWS RELEASE - Practical Issues Arising from the Euro - May 2002.
Bank of Korea chief cites peril of 'cronyism'
SOUTH KOREA - Park Seung, the Bank of Korea governor, recently said that he offered Finance and Economy Minister Jeon Yun-churl his view on the appointment of a new member of the central bank's monetary policy committee.
Posh jobs
FEATURE - Former directors of Equitable Life who are being sued for more than £3bn will turn green with envy if they cast an eye over the Bank of England's annual report. In a section on governance and accountability, it makes clear that the Bank's Court…
Warning from Bank of England over euro timetable
UK - Ministers must not be tempted into shortening the timetable for scrapping the pound if Britain votes to join the euro, the Bank of England has warned.
Japan 'to show strong growth'
JAPAN - Recoveries in exports and consumer spending will drive robust growth in Japan's economic output, leading researchers have predicted.
Japan hits out at ratings downgrade
JAPAN - As Japan braced for a possible two notch downgrade to its sovereign credit rating next week, the Ministry of Finance stepped up its war of words with the world's leading rating agencies by restating its belief that they are misguided.
Mboweni willing to tell all
SOUTH AFRICA - South African Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni on Monday said he was willing to disclose details of a confidential deal reached between the SARB and Deutsche Bank to boost South Africa's foreign exchange reserves.
European Central Bank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Seminar of the Eurosystem and Latin American central banks to be held in Madrid, on 23 and 24 May 2002, 22 May.
ECB Working Paper Series
RESEARCH - Modelling the daily banknotes in circulation in the context of the liquidity management of the European Central Bank, by Alberto Cabrero, Gonzalo Camba-Mendez, Astrid Hirsch and Fernando Nieto, May 2002, (ECB Working Paper No. 142).
Minutes of Japan's Monetary Policy Meeting
MINUTES - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes from the meeting of 10 and 11 April, released 24 May.
Norges Bank's press conference
PRESS CONFERENCE - Monetary policy meeting of Norges Bank's Executive Board, 22 May.
Norges Bank press release
PRESS RELEASE - Norges Bank keeps interest rates unchanged, 22 May.
Bank of England Working Papers
RESEARCH - Monetary policy and stagflation in the UK by Edward Nelson and Kalin Nikolov, Working Paper No 155, May 2002.
Speech by Malcolm Knight of Bank of Canada, 23 May
SPEECH - Remarks by Malcolm Knight, Senior Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada to the Chambre de commerce et d'industrie du bassin de Chambly, Chambly, Quebec, 23 May.
Select Committee on Treasury Fourth Report
REPORT - The Treasury Committee has agreed to the following Report: Appointment to the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England of Ms Marian Bell and Mr Paul Tucker, 24 May.
Two new faces on the Bank of England's MPC
FEATURE - In the auspicious oak panelled surroundings of Committee Room 16 at the Houses of Parliament the newest recruits to the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee were put through their paces by the Treasury Select Committee on Wednesday…
Unthinkable that Bank should expect otherwise
LETTER - Sir, While esteeming the Bank of England's quarterly inflation report as "an impressive showcase for the Bank's latest thinking", Observer finds that "it can be a bit samey: the Bank predicts that inflation will be at or close to its target with…
MPC pay rise over inflation at Bank of England
UK - Members of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee saw their pay rise by more than inflation last year, thanks to the standard practice of uprating salaries in line with the government's inflation target. The Bank's annual report also casts…