Central Banks
Bank of Italy names Signorini to second most senior role
Long-time official is promoted to general manager after Daniele Franco becomes finance minister
Kyrgyzstan central bank hikes rates as inflation rises
Fifty-basis point hike brings rate to 5.5% amid rising inflation and following political upheaval
Eurozone needs fiscal stimulus – ECB’s Schnabel
ECB board member says raising eurozone inflation needs fiscal evolution and structural reform
BoE’s Haldane warns against ‘complacency’ on inflation
Chief economist says uncertainty is high but risks are “skewed to the upside”
Digital policy-making in a data-driven world
The way central banks think about data is changing. As the world becomes more digital, there is an ever-growing data pool from which central banks and regulators can draw information about the economy. Central Banking convened a webinar in association…
Bank of Spain paper analyses regulations’ complexity
Researchers present new method for linguistic and structural assessment of regulations
RBNZ to support government housing objectives
New Zealand finance minister changes central bank’s monetary and financial policy remits
Fed’s ‘operational error’ disrupts key payment services
Fedwire, ACH and other transfer systems suspended for several hours
RBI’s Das: pandemic improved India’s external balance
Boom in software business helped shore up current account and boost RBI reserves, governor says
The National Data Brain – A solution by TCSA for data-driven economic governance
TCSA explores the concept of a ‘National Data Brain’ – a solution that can pioneer data-driven economic governance in today’s digital era, in which data is central
Will Treasury yields keep on rising?
Falling price of US bonds may force reserve managers to change duration to preserve capital
Book notes: Capital and ideology, by Thomas Piketty
A political pamphlet like Milton’s ‘Areopagitica’, but longer
Bank of Italy paper uses Twitter to track inflation expectations
New method’s data gives a “good real-time proxy” for consumers’ expectations – researchers
BIS paper contrasts firm financing in US and Asia
Authors argue market segmentation drives different patterns of bond and loan financing
How valuable is a PhD economist?
Heads of research from Canada, Israel and North Macedonia weigh the benefits of advanced economics education
Powell: US economy still ‘a long way’ from meeting Fed goals
Fed chair predicts continued need for low interest rates and QE, as recovery remains “uneven and far from complete”
Sudanese central bank changes currency regime
Central bank cuts official exchange rate sharply after years of major over-valuation
New Zealand’s banking system operationally ready for negative rates
Central bank will lower rates below zero lower bound if required, MPC says
BoE unveils plan to ‘transform’ data collection
Decade-long effort to overhaul data standards and methods of reporting
Monetary innovation required to respond to next crisis – Riksbank’s Breman
Deputy governor thinks fiscal and monetary policy co-ordination will be increasingly important
Covid-19 highlighted machine learning model limits – BoE research
Economic downturn could not have been forecast on the basis of data alone, BoE says
People: Former Bank of Tanzania governor dies
Fed appoints chief innovation officer; World Bank names new head of International Finance Corporation; and more