Speech
Speech by Governor, Danmarks Nationalbank, 25 Sep
SPEECH - Speech by Governor Jens Thomsen, Danmarks Nationalbank. Une monnaie, l'euro, une banque centrale, 12 pays Montreal, le 25 septembre 2002.
Speech by Roger Ferguson, Federal Reserve, 9 Oct
SPEECH - Ferguson gave a speech 'Central Banks and Markets' on receiving the 2002 Distinguished Public Service Award from the Bond Market Association. In the speech he discussed the hot topic of whether central banks have a role in the control of asset…
Speech by Susan Schmidt Bies of the Fed, 8 Oct
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Corporate Governance and Risk Management' Bies said firms of all sizes should continue to pursue strategies to manage risk. Following sound risk management, governance, and disclosure practices consistently is also crucial…
Speech by Jack Guynn President Atlanta Fed, 2 Oct
SPEECH - Guynn said in a speech to Columbus Rotary Club titled 'The U.S. Economy: Getting Back on Track' that he'd characterise the U.S. economy as plodding along but moving in the right direction - forward. The economy has basically emerged from…
Speech by Governor, Danmarks Nationalbank, 9 Sep
SPEECH - Speech by Governor Jens Thomsen of Danmarks Nationalbank 'Monetary Policy in the Shadow of a Monetary Union' at the Bank of Ghana on 9 September 2002.
Speech by Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, 7 Oct
SPEECH - In a speech on 'The continued strength of the U.S. banking system' Greenspan explores the apparent incongruity between this and the recent substantial losses on corporate credits. He sums up on a cautious but positive note: 'Success, indeed…
Speech by M Moskow, President, Chicago Fed, 3 Oct
SPEECH - Moskow said in a speech on 'The Economy and Expanded Trade' that the last 20 years has brought deregulated financial markets, developed more flexible labor markets and made major advances in technology for the U.S. economy. Moskow concluded that…
Testimony of Wim Duisenberg, ECB President, 8 Oct
SPEECH - In testimony before the EU Parliament Duisenberg stressed that structural reforms are required so that the full benefits of the introduction of the euro can be reaped. Given the environment of subdued economic growth, Duisenberg was of the…
Speech by David Dodge, Bank of Canada, 5 Oct
SPEECH - In a speech on 'Dollarization and North American Integration', Dodge discusses the benefits and costs of a floating exchange rate versus dollarization, given the current conditions, and the implications for the floating exchange rate should the…
Speech by Roger Ferguson, Federal Reserve, 3 Oct
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Business Continuity after September 11' Ferguson looks at business-continuity challenges and discusses a related white paper that US regulators have recently published for public consultation. He also highlights the…
Speech by Yeo Lian Sim, MAS, 19 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Hedge Funds: A Mainstream Alternative' Sim said the MAS will maintain its calibrated approach towards the regulation of hedge funds and hedge fund managers. She said it will also continue to build on the three pillars of…
Speech by Shane Tregillis, MAS, 4 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'A Newfound Importance Of Non-Bank FIs in Asia' Tregillis said that to develop the regulation of capital markets in Singapore the first thing needed is to update the content of regulation so that it responds to changes in…
Speech by Gary Stern, Minneapolis Fed Bank, 19 May
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Reflections on Business, Government and Reputation' Stern said "recent leaders of the Federal Reserve, namely Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, are I think widely and deservedly perceived as men of unquestioned integrity and…
Speech by W. McDonough, New York Fed Bank, 29 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Issues in Corporate Governance' McDonough used part of it to return to a topic he discussed recently, executive compensation. He said that in his view, public policy should aim to eliminate distorting incentives and to…
Speech by Yutaka Yamaguchi, Bank of Japan, 30 Aug
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Monetary Policy in a Changing Economic Environment' and published on 1 October by the Bank of Japan, Yamaguchi said that the Bank of Japan's experience showed that price stability, by making low interest rate possible, can…
Speech by Charles Freedman, Bank of Canada, 2 Oct
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The Role of Inflation Targets in the Canadian Economy' Freedman said that a monetary policy framework based on an explicit target for inflation has helped the Canadian economy to weather shocks, and will continue to do so…
Speech by Koh Yong Guan, MD MAS, 2 Aug
SPEECH - In the speech Koh Yong Guan said the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore (BCCS) will be merging with MAS. We are targeting to complete the merger exercise by October 2002. The merger of the two institutions is being undertaken with the…
Speech by Gary Stern, Minneapolis Fed Bank, 25 Apr
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The (Uncertain) Resilience of the U.S. Economy' Stern said that two of the Minneapolis Fed's economists reviewed a variety of inflation forecasting models and found that Phillips curve type NAIRU models did no better at…
Speech by W. McDonough, New York Fed Bank, 18 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Completing the Journey to the New Basel Accord' McDonough said that motivating all banks to improve their management of risk, and thereby strengthen the stability of the banking system, is one of the principal objectives…
Speech by Robert E. Rubin, MAS, 25 Jul
SPEECH - In the MAS Lecture Rubin said that the Japanese economy could experience an upturn if global conditions are reasonable but that the "enormously complicated" structural and fiscal problems Japan faces have in large measure not been effectively…
Speech by Second Minister for Finance, MAS, 23 Jul
SPEECH - In the speech the Minister for Health and Second Minister for Finance said Singapore has progressively evolved away from the system of a fixed exchange rate since the Singapore dollar was floated in 1973.
Speech by Susan Schmidt Bies of the Fed, 28 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'Bank Performance and Corporate Governance' Bies said that following sound accounting, auditing, and disclosure practices consistently is crucial to maintaining the confidence of capital and financial markets. We should…
Speech by T P Naranubala, Bank of Thailand, 19 Sep
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'How to create a stable financial environment in emerging market economies' Naranubala said that emerging market economies and stable financial environment do not always go hand in hand. They are invariably at some points in…
Speech by B Gunnarsson, Bank of Iceland, 13 Sep
SPEECH - In a speech titled 'Iceland in a Global Setting' Gunnarsson said Iceland has followed the path of many countries, including the Nordic Countries, in liberalising its economy, both internally and externally. The economy has been exposed to market…