Speech
Asian infrastructure needs - Ng speech
"The immense yet unmet need for infrastructure investments in Asia" combined with Asian governments' desire to develop their capital markets constitute an ideal environment for infrastructure capital markets to take off, according to Ng Nam Sin,…
Finland's Liikanen: uncertainty and globalisation
Erkki Liikanen, the governor of the Bank of Finland, said that although "There has been a broad-based decline in many measurable risks...one could argue that uncertainty may in fact have increased."
Asia ten years on - IMF's Burton
Ten years after Asia's financial crisis it is the most dynamic region in the global economy, observed David Burton, the IMF's director for Asia and the Pacific, in a speech in Singapore.
Holland's Wellink assesses eight years of EMU
Speaking at the Nieuwegein Business Center, Nout Wellink, the president of the Dutch central bank, took stock of the achievements of eight years of economic and monetary integration and set out what he saw as the challenges facing the eurozone.
Spain's Ordoez: immigration keeps inflation low
Miguel Ordoez, the governor of the Bank of Spain, said that immigration into Spain has helped keep inflation rates relatively low, in a speech at a symposium on the Phillips curve and the natural rate hypothesis in Kiel, Germany on 3 June.
Kroszner on risks and outlook for US economy
Economic growth will in the US pick up through 2007, rising to close to potential by 2008, said Randall Kroszner, a member of the Board of Governors, at the spring meeting of the IIF in Athens, adding that the risks to the inflation outlook are primarily…
Germany's Weber: academics good central bankers
In a speech made on 29 May in Paris, Alex Weber, president of the Bundesbank, said that sending academics to politics clearly solves a problem inherent in academic policy advice: "getting the message across to do the right thing".
Sweden's Rosenberg on interest rates
External price pressure and expectations of improvements in productivity were the reasons why Irma Rosenberg, a first deputy governor at Sweden's Riksbank, voted for rates to stay on hold at the monetary policy meeting at the start of the month, she said…
Fundanga on the outlook for the Zambian economy
After recording single-digit inflation for the first time in 30 years last year, Zambia's economy has slipped back somewhat in the first quarter of 2007, the governor of the central bank, Caleb Fundanga, told national radio.
UK's Blanchflower explains voting behaviour
In a speech on 30 May David Blanchflower, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee, said that he voted to raise rates for the first time since joining the MPC in June 2006 because he wanted to indicate to the public the Bank's intention…
Why worry about inflation? - Sri Lankan deputy gov
In this speech W.A. Wijewardena, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, explains why "inflation is undoubtedly the public enemy number one."
Ingves: The Riksbank and the Swedish economy
In this speech, Stefan Ingves, the governor of the Swedish Riksbank, outlines the recent changes the central bank has made to its communications strategy.
Bini Smaghi on "secondary objectives"
In his speech 'With or Without Prejudice to Price Stability? , Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, discusses what the central bank can do to achieve its so-called secondary objectives of monetary policy.
New challenges for central bankers
In this speech, Ajith Nivard Cabraal, governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, says central bankers need to look beyond a single price index in the objectives to ensure economic and price stability.
Estimating potential output - Fed's Mishkin
In this speech, Frederic Mishkin, a governor at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, provides a non-technical overview of academic research on the estimation of potential output, and important concept in monetary policy analysis.
The future of UK regulation
In this speech, Dan Waters, director of Retail Policy at the Financial Services Authority, provides an overview of the main principles and applications of the authority's much-praised "principles-based" supervision.
The Fund's changing role in Asia
In this speech, David Burton, director of the Asia & Pacific Department of the IMF, points out how the Fund's role in Asia has changed since the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and 1998.
Monetary policy and the labour market
This speech Irma Rosenburg, first deputy governor of the Swedish Riksbank, explores the relationship between monetary policy and the labour market.
Central banks and economic research
In this speech, Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, emphasises the importance of research to the work central banks do.
The outlook for the Indian economy
In the speech Dr Y.V. Reddy, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, discusses macroeconomic performance, the financial sector, the short term outlook, and the challenges and strengths of the Indian economy.
Trichet interview
This Financial Times interview with Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the European Central Bank, covers a variety of topics from the German economy and eurozone growth, to the need for further structural reforms on the Continent, and the prospects of the…
SARB's Guma on SA debt market
In this speech, Dr X.P. Guma, the Deputy Governor of the South African Reserve Bank argues that sovereign debt markets will need to address the inability of adjacent emerging and developing to raise financing in their own currencies beyond their own…
Malaysian governor on Islamic Finance
Dr. Zeti Akhtar Aziz, Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia gave a speech at the 4th IFSB summit on 15 May 2007 regarding the need for a cross-sectoral approach in Islamic financial services.
Fed's Kroszner on globalization & capital markets
In the speech 'Globalization and capital markets: Implications for inflation and the yield curve' given on 16 May Randall Kroszner of the Federal Reserve said the ease that investors can move money around the globe has spurred a "currency competition"…