Research
How competition influences bank failures
Bank of Finland uses evidence from Russia to investigate link between competition and failure
Monetary policy and the Jordanian central bank
Research charts the impact of central bank independence on policy
Riksbank's Svensson calls for better forecasting
Riksbank’s Lars Svensson reviews the development of the Riksbank’s transparency and communication since its independence in 1999
Sounder banks’ borrowers get burned in mergers
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) looks to Japan for firm-level evidence on the real effects of bank bailouts
Remittances a potential tax base
International Monetary Fund investigates the impact of remittances on public-debt sustainability
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
A model for an economy's target value of assets
Centre for Economic Policy Research investigates global imbalances
Banque de France review offers regulatory preview
Report features contributions from Jaime Caruana, Claudio Borio, Sheila Bair and Nout Wellink
Watch demand-type shocks in move to peg
Czech National Bank economist says monetary policy should pay attention to demand-type shocks when moving to an fixed-exchange-rate-peg regime
A model for monetary policy analysis
San Francisco Federal Reserve finds labour market impacts policy's goals
How do financial markets price new information?
European Central Bank research paper investigates the reception of public signals in financial market
Payments between healthy and unhealthy banks
Bank of England research investigates how settlement banks in CHAPS, the UK's large-value payment system, deal with operational risk
Responding to oil price shocks
San Francisco Federal Reserve research investigates how monetary authorities should react to oil price shocks
How financial markets in Africa develop
International Monetary Fund research makes an empirical examination of the determinants of financial market in Africa, looking particularly at banking systems and stock markets
Productivity in Chinese provinces
Bank of Finland research goes in search of innovation-driven gains in Chinese provinces
Modelling the labour market
Research published by the Bank of England reviews recent approaches to modelling the labour market and their implications for inflation dynamics
SNB takes a historical view
Swiss National Bank examines data from past 102 years in new paper
Recovery from recession analysed
International Monetary Fund research posits speed of recovery from recession can be influenced by stimulus
On the effects of FX settlement on liquidity
Research investigates impact of transactions carried out by large cross-border banks
After Japan’s “Big Bang”
San Francisco Federal Reserve research looks at post-Big Bang bond markets
Reserve Bank of India – Annual Report 2008-2009
Reserve Bank of India’s latest Annual Report says monetary policy should look at asset bubbles and leverage
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
Asian finance to grow despite turmoil
Hong Kong Monetary Authority says Asia’s financial systems will expand despite the impact of the global crisis
International investors drive Thai exchange rate
Bank for International Settlements says Thai exchange rate is in part determined by international investors' cross-border portfolio rebalancing decisions