Research

Federal Reserve Board Discussion Paper

RESEARCH - 'Monetary Union, Price Level Convergence, and Inflation: How Close is Europe to the United States?' by John H. Rogers, published 21 October. In the article the author examines the decline in European price level dispersion and whether this…

Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk

REPORT - A collection of papers that were either presented or are based on presentations at the Third Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk, which took place in Basel on 7 and 8 March 2002 at the Bank for…

BIS Working Paper

RESEARCH - 'Changes in market functioning and central bank policy: an overview of the issues', by Marvin J Barth III, Eli M Remolona and Philip D Wooldridge, October 2002.

Sveriges Riksbank Inflation Report 3rd Q 2002

REPORT - Sweden's central bank has published its Inflation Report for the third quarter of 2002. Since the time of the June Report inflation has come down somewhat more than was expected. In August the 12-month changes in the CPI and UND1X were 2.0 and 2…

Bank of Japan Monthly Report, October 2002

REPORT - The Bank of Japan published its Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments, October 2002, on 16 October. In its report the Bank says that Japan's economy has stabilised as a whole, but clear signs of recovery have not yet been…

RBA Bulletin - October 2002

REPORT - The Reserve Bank of Australia published its October 2002 Bulletin on 17 October. The Bulletin contains articles on Developments in the Trade-Weighted Index, Dual-listed Companies and The Changing Composition of the Australian Workforce.

Management and Supervision, Cross-Border E Banking

RESEARCH - Basel Committee Publications No. 93, October 2002. The purpose of this paper prepared by the Electronic Banking Group (EBG) of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is to further the Committee's dialogue with the banking industry and…

ECB Monthly Bulletin, October 2002

REPORT - The European Central Bank published its October 2002 Monthly Bulletin on 17 October. In the bulletin the ECB states that although liquidity is currently ample, there is a low risk of this translating into inflationary pressures in the near…

Philadelphia Fed Business Review, 3rd Quarter 2002

REPORT - The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia has published its regular Business Review for the Third Quarter 2002. How does a decentralized central bank work? The events of September 11 put the Federal Reserve System, the central bank of the United…

Deutsche Bundesbank Monthly Report, September 2002

REPORT - Germany's central bank, on 16 October published its Monthly Report for September 2002. The report shows a further increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) in the second quarter of this year, although the rise on the first quarter remained…

Economic Review from the Kansas City Fed Bank

PUBLICATION - The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City has published the Third Quarter 2002 edition of its Economic Review. The Economic Review is a quarterly research publication with articles by Economic Research Staff on issues of relevance to the…

The Exchange Rate and Inflation in the UK

RESEARCH - External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No.11, The Exchange Rate and Inflation in the UK by Amit Kara and Edward Nelson. The paper looks at the evidence from the UK on inflation behaviour and examines the propositions from several theoretical…

Fedtalk from the Boston Fed, September 2002

PUBLICATION - Financial Services Update of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, September 2002. A newsletter about Boston Fed financial services, Fedtalk offers the latest information on check services and electronic delivery systems. The most recent…

The Region from the Minneapolis Fed September 2002

PUBLICATION - The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has published its regular magazine, The Region, for September 2002. Included in this issue the Nobel prize-winning economist Robert Solow discusses his groundbreaking theory of economic growth, his…

Credit risk measurement and procyclicality

RESEARCH - BIS Working Paper by Philip Lowe, September 2002. This paper examines the two-way linkages between credit risk measurement and the macroeconomy. It first discusses the issue of whether credit risk is low or high in economic booms. It then…

SARB Monetary Policy Review - October 2002

REPORT - The South African Reserve Bank has published its October Monetary Policy Review. The report reflects on increased inflationary pressures in the South African economy following the depreceiation of the rand in the latter half of 2001.

Chicago Fed Letter, November 2002

PUBLICATION - The November 2002 issue of the Chicago Fed Letter is titled 'A regional perspective on the U.S. business cycle'. It is not difficult to come up with a definition of the business cycle that most of us would understand. A thornier issue is…

Bank of Japan Discussion Paper

RESEARCH - 'Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the European Monetary Union' by Juergen von Hagen and Matthias Brueckner - The introductory phase of the European Monetary Union ended with the emission of euro currency in 2002. This paper presents a review of…

The Regional Economist, October 2002

PUBLICATION - The Quarterly Review of Business and Economic Conditions, The Regional Economist, edition from the St Louis Fed contains an article 'Story Time at the FOMC'. Formal data don't tell policy-makers everything they need to know about the…

Bank of Canada research on monetary shocks

RESEARCH - This paper studies the persistent effects of monetary shocks on output. The paper constructs and estimates a general-equilibrium model with price rigidities, habit formation, and costly capital adjustment. Econometric results indicate that…

IMF Survey, Vol. 31, No 18, October 7

SURVEY - The latest issue includes various reports on the 2002 Annual Meetings: overview, speeches, communiques, press conferences. There are also articles on African capacity building, FDI website, Burton to head Asia-Pacific Department, prolonged use…

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