Monetary Policy

Speech by Kazuo Ueda of the Bank of Japan

SPEECH/ PAPER - A paper based on a speech given by Kazuo Ueda, Member of the Policy Board of the Bank of Japan, at the semi-annual meeting of the Japan Society of Monetary Economics on 29 September 2001. Previously this was only available in Japanese…

Speech by Wim Duisenberg, President of the ECB

SPEECH - Keynote address by Dr. Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank, at an awards ceremony and press conference held on the eve of the introduction of the euro banknotes and coins, Frankfurt am Main, 31 December 2001.

ECB Press Conference

PRESS CONFERENCE - Introductory statement by Willem F. Duisenberg, President of the European Central Bank, Christian Noyer, Vice-President of the European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main, 3 January 2002.

Argentina's route to salvation

ARGENTINA - A competitive exchange rate, a more open economy and sound banks should be the priorities, says Ricardo Haussmann professor of economic development at Harvard in Todays's Financial Times.

Rojo: Keynesian policies are no longer an option

SPAIN - Perhaps the most influential economist in Spain in recent times, Luis Angel Rojo has devoting most of his professional career to servicing the Spanish economy in the country's central bank, the Bank of Spain. In an interview with El Pais…

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How to Dollarize in Argentina

‘How to Dollarize in Argentina’ by Kurt Schuler and Steve H Hanke. As the policies of the Argentine government are at a dead end and the peso is widely distrusted, Schuler and Hanke present their proposals for dollarization.

Argentina to unveil new economic plan on Friday

ARGENTINA - Congressman Jorge Remes Lenicov will be sworn in Thursday as Argentina's new economy minister and on Friday he will unveil a new series of economic measures, Buenos Aires Governor Carlos Ruckauf confirmed in an interview.

ECB interest rates unchanged

GERMANY - As widely expected the European Central Bank left interest rates unchanged with officials largely focused this week on the launch of euro notes and coins.

Speech by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, IMF

SPEECH - Remarks by Horst Kohler, Managing Director, International Monetary Fund. At a news conference in Luxembourg Mr. Koehler said the U.S. economy should recover in the second quarter next year. The European economy will turn around by mid-2002, he…

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President hints at end of peso peg

ARGENTINA - Argentina has its fifth president in less than two weeks, veteran politician Mr Eduardo Duhalde immediately reaffirmed the moratorium on paying the country's US$132 billion ($258.9 billion) in public debt until its shattered economy resumes…

Euro changeover "better than expected"

GERMANY - The European Central Bank reported on Wednesday that the launch of euro cash was progressing smoothly despite exceptionally high demand for the new notes. "The euro cash changeover is going smoothly, even better than we had expected," said ECB…

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