Federal Reserve System
Fed governor pans accounting developments
Federal Reserve’s Elizabeth Duke says both FASB’s and IASB’s new approaches raise “number of concerns”
Beige Book cautiously positive
Federal Reserve’s Beige Book suggests economic activity continued to stabilise
US to end money-market guarantees this month
Treasury secretary Tim Geithner notes financial sector starting to wean itself of state support
Estate agents do serve social role
Boston Federal Reserve looks at the conflict of interest between a seller of a house and a real-estate agent
Greenspan blames “human nature” for crunch
Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan sceptical that another crisis can be avoided until humans learn to accept cyclical nature of capitalism
A model for monetary policy analysis
San Francisco Federal Reserve finds labour market impacts policy's goals
Bright ideas and sombre moods
Malan Rietveld reports on a recent conference at the London School of Economics on the future of financial regulation
From triumph to the brink of despair
Robert Pringle looks at the last two decades, as viewed through the pages of Central Banking
Early warning models doomed to fail
San Francisco Federal Reserve research is sceptical about the effectiveness of early warning systems in predicting the timing of crises
Fed wants delay on release of loan details
Federal Reserve says naming loan recipients would hinder its ability to manage current and future crises
Trichet: asset prices impact policy
European Central Bank’s Jean-Claude Trichet says that asset-price dynamics impact the central bank’s policy decisions
Bernanke nominated for second term
President Obama wants Bernanke to serve second four-year term after staving off a financial meltdown
Fed’s Madigan: five lessons for crisis management
Federal Reserve’s markets chief Brian Madigan says Walter Bagehot’s central tenet remains relevant
Crisis highlighted importance of liquidity: Bernanke
Fed chairman uses Jackson Hole address to stress need for macroprudential approach
Education pays: Philadelphia Fed on innovation
Philadelphia Federal Reserve looks at where does geographically adaptation to innovation take place
Fed extends Talf programme
The Federal Reserve extends key loan facility for asset-backed securities, soothing market concerns
Rodrik: Fed needs paradigm shift
Harvard economists argues the new Fed chairman has to be less in awe of Wall Street
Small firms also make it in exports
Philadelphia Federal Reserve says exporters not necessarily larger than non-exporting firms
Fed action spurs market recovery
Federal Open Market Committee statement boosts wave of positive sentiment
Swap lines had crucial impact: Aizenman
Joshua Aizenman, an economist, on the importance of emerging-market foreign-exchange swap lines during the crisis
New York Federal Reserve – Annual Report 2008
New York Federal Reserve’s Annual Report shows its balance sheet tripled in the past year
Fed enhancing large institutions’ oversight: Tarullo
Federal Reserve’s Daniel Tarullo says supervision of large institutions to get a new boost
More than a fifth of jobs not advertised
Philadelphia Federal Reserve studies vacancies, hires, and vacancy yields in the US job market