Interview
Karnit Flug on the Bank of Israel’s emergency responses and challenges ahead
The former Israeli central bank governor and current vice-president of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the BoI’s targeted emergency responses, economic uncertainties and central banking independence
The ECCB’s Timothy Antoine on currency union, cooperation and DCash 2.0
The ECCB governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about maintaining a currency zone, addressing climate and cyber risks, the decline in correspondence banking and lessons learned from issuing a retail CBDC
Claudio Borio on financial cycles, operating frameworks and non-bank reform
The BIS veteran highlights a ‘unique constellation’ of challenges for central banks as they fight inflation
Somalia’s Abdullahi on the challenges of re-integration with the international system
The Central Bank of Somalia governor speaks about capacity building, reintroducing the shilling, securing donor support and climate change
Joachim Nagel on the ECB’s terminal rate, fiscal policy, model relevance and the digital euro
The Deutsche Bundesbank president speaks about compromise on the Governing Council, rolling back PEPP, the need to implement Basel III and the chances of a revised Stability and Growth Pact
Former Central Bank of Barbados governor calls for dollarisation
Caricom has failed to integrate the Caribbean, says DeLisle Worrell
Bank of Canada’s Maryam Haghighi on quantum computing in central banks
The director of data science talks about post-quantum encryption, payments simulation and optimisation problems
Stefan Ingves on central bank failings on inflation and financial stability
Riksbank veteran speaks about liquidity, interest rate and non-bank regulatory reforms, and the need for explicit legal definitions for digital money
Guillermo Avellán on BCE independence, capacity-building and dollarisation
Ecuador’s general manager speaks about bolstering legal autonomy, dollarisation, payments and gold production
Senad Softić on governance, currency boards and EU convergence challenges
Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina governor speaks about governance, managing a currency board and modernising payments
Ukraine’s governor on central banking in wartime
Andriy Pyshnyy talks about macroeconomic stability, running banks under missile attack, winning IMF aid and post-war reconstruction plans
RBI’s Shaktikanta Das on financial sector reform, sticking to inflation targets and the e-rupee
The Reserve Bank of India governor speaks about developing credible self-insurance, bank regulatory reforms, and daily UPI payments hitting 300 million transactions
IMF’s Adrian on the systemic threat posed by a ‘weak tail’ of financial institutions
IMF’s financial counsellor discusses the need for action on run rate assumptions, interest rate risk, deposit insurance and crypto regulation
Edmund Phelps and the search for a ‘new economy’
The Nobel Prize winner is concerned something is deeply wrong with how policy-makers think about the economy
BoT’s Sethaput on inflation dynamics, central bank mandates and multi-lateral payments
Thai governor speaks about higher inflation, sustainable finance challenges, CBDC experiments and payments governance
Stefan Ingves on leadership, prudential oversight and transparency
Riksbank veteran talks about Basel III, policy lessons and CBDCs
Fed policy roundtable II: recession risk and sticky inflation
Academics look at forward guidance, asset purchases, and the “magic” in forecasting models
Fed policy roundtable: inflation targeting, asset purchases and uncertainty
Academics look at forward guidance, asset purchases, and the “magic” in forecasting models
Armenia’s Galstyan calls for a new framework to tackle uncertainty and nonlinearities
Favours risk-management approach to policy and less emphasis on baseline forecasts that give false assurances
Chile’s Costa on tackling inflation, forex interventions and nowcasting
Chilean governor discusses stubbornly high prices, Fed spillovers, reserve buffers, retail CBDC and unconscious bias
Christopher Sims on modelling the inflation surge
Unprecedented shocks creates major challenges for forecasters, the Nobel prize-winning economist says
Morocco’s Jouahri on inflation, forex reform, digitalisation and sustainability
BAM governor speaks about Covid-19, Fed tightening, BIS membership, regional co-operation and inclusion
Joseph Stiglitz on the challenge of fixing macroeconomics
Nobel Prize-winner discusses if central banks went wrong in 2021 and what to do about inflation
Gontareva on Ukraine’s funding, NBU policy and reconstruction
Ex-NBU governor talks about fund shortfalls, finstab challenges, the CBR and post-conflict rebuilding