Bank of England (BoE)
People: BoE appoints Brexit co-ordinator; Lagarde chooses Selassie to head Africa department
Phil Evans put in charge of work on UK’s exit from European Union at the Bank of England; Christine Lagarde appoints new Africa chief; and more
BoE signals further rate cut despite stronger-than-expected data
Package of measures announced in August led to “greater than anticipated boost” to UK asset prices; despite data somewhat stronger than expected a further rate cut is likely, minutes say
BoE shines light on its gender pay gap
Men are still paid more than women at the central bank, though the gap is narrowing, and smaller within pay bands than across the organisation
New facility opens to print £10 notes, as £5 enters circulation
Substrate for UK’s new £5 banknote, launched today, was produced in Australia because new facility was not yet ready; Innovia says new plant will make use of the latest technology
BoE’s Shafik to step down early
Deputy governor reveals she is to take up post as director of the London School of Economics in 2017, leaving the central bank more than two years before her term was due to end
BoE’s Cleland discusses extending digital central bank money to the public
Costs and benefits need to be better understood, says Cleland, but the Bank of England is investigating all avenues
Carney deflects criticism of Brexit response
MPs question BoE officials on whether broad package of monetary easing was an overreaction; Forbes explains four factors behind dissenting vote
BoE exhibition to juxtapose new fiver with historical banknotes
BoE to open currency gallery a week before the launch of the new £5 note; museum to feature banknotes from eras throughout history
Emerging evidence can guide design of macro-prudential policies, say BIS, IMF and FSB
International institutions present review of evidence on macro-prudential policies; no consensus but some patterns are emerging
Mervyn King on Brexit, crisis supervision, economic rebalancing and reforming the IMF
The former Bank of England governor discusses Brexit, radical regulatory reform, the difficulties rebalancing the European and global economies and an overhaul of the International Monetary Fund
Economists add to theory and empirics of economy’s non-linear dynamics
Paper by Bank of England economists finds “strong evidence” of non-linearity in UK data, while Markus Brunnermeier and Yuliy Sannikov expand theory of financial amplification mechanisms
More work needed to make case for GDP-linked bonds – BoE paper
The design of GDP-linked bonds needs to align macroeconomic need with investor demand, according to a paper authored for the G20 summit; clearer guidelines and principles could aid adoption
Long-run financial market volatility has strong effects on real economy, researchers say
A Bank of England working paper presents a method for breaking financial market volatility into long- and short-run components; long-run volatility closely linked to economic fundamentals, authors say
UK inflation climbs in first post-Brexit data
Prices rose 0.6% in the year to July, the highest inflation number for nearly two years, with signs the effect of the UK’s Brexit vote may be starting to feed through
BoE paper finds fault with empirical methods for studying contagion
Review of spillover and contagion literature finds methods plagued by bias and heteroskedasticity, concluding no single technique is flawless, but some offer a partial solution
BoE research finds support for Phillips curve in micro data
Authors turn to direct measures of firms’ expectations and employ new instrumental variables in search of empirical support for the Phillips curve
BoE researchers outline risk of collateral collapse
In stress periods, collateral chains could break, paper in forthcoming Journal of Financial Market Infrastructure warns
BoE bond purchases run into difficulties
Central bank fails to meet quota of long-dated government bond purchases despite offering a high price, pointing to an unusual failure of its bond-buying mechanism
Monetary expansion: Is the sky the limit?
Unconventional monetary policies in advanced countries have resulted in benefits and costs for the global economy and financial markets. Manuel Sánchez assesses if the benefits are worth the risks.
BoE launches broad Brexit response
Central bank wields all its main tools and some new ones as the effects of Brexit begin to appear; aims to support transmission mechanism amid extraordinary measures
BoE seen as ‘boxed in’ ahead of MPC vote
Forward guidance from MPC members has laid the ground work for a rate cut or other form of easing; even if the effect of a cut is minimal, a hold decision would be worse, says former committee member
Report sees progress following UK market review but job ‘far from done’
Implementation report notes good progress, suggests responsibility must now fall to market participants; authors note ‘Brexit’ may delay some reforms
Inflation expectations are part of QE transmission mechanism – BoE paper
Firms’ inflation expectations increase in response to QE, research finds; interventions played ‘modest’ role in stabilising inflation expectations in recent years
BoE prize-winning research favours CCB over leaning against the wind
Authors from Lancaster University find credit spread-augmented Taylor rule damages welfare, while a recent BIS paper takes a different analytical approach