Financial crisis
Bagehot revisited
The credit crisis has underlined the limited effectiveness of central banks’ lender-of-last-resort function, argues Bruce White
Why the American economy needs fiscal assistance
For all its activism, the Fed cannot address the persistent imbalances in the American economy on its own, says John Balder
Getting the policy mix right
Policymakers should pay greater attention to the links between liquidity and capital, says Glenn Hubbard
Light in Gaza
Jihad Alwazir, the governor of the Palestine Monetary Authority, tells Claire Jones how the central bank is reforming the state’s banking sector and why the institution needs to be a “jack of all trades”
BoE's Tucker on assessing price impact of slowdown
A key challenge for the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee will be to assess whether the expected economic slowdown will be sufficient to bring inflation back to target, said Paul Tucker, the Bank's executive director responsible for markets.
Asian inflation may spark investor flight
If inflation continue to rise, a deterioration of investor sentiment about emerging-markets economies cannot be ruled out, said the Exchange Fund advisory committee of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority according to minutes of its June meeting.
EU needs more crisis coordination
European Union financial regulators need to improve crisis prevention and management, and their supervisory structures, says research from Deutsche Bank.
Yellen on Fed's response to subprime crisis
Janet Yellen, the president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, has underlined the central bank's commitment to addressing the mortgage and foreclosure crisis.
Nobel laureate foresees dollar crisis
The value of the greenback could collapse within the next five years without reform of the global monetary system, Robert Mundell, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, has said.
Lower loan costs to stem foreclosures: Boston Fed
Making mortgage payments temporarily affordable for Americans with negative housing equity is the best way to prevent foreclosure, research published by the Boston Fed finds.
Turbulence hits Norwegian banks
Norwegian banks face tougher conditions as a result of the considerable turbulence in global money and credit markets, the country's central bank noted in its latest Financial Stability Review.
Restrict money issuance to foster stability
Pouring central bank money into Latin American financial systems in times of uncertainty fails to promote economic stability, research published by the International Monetary Fund states.
Getting back on track
Jacques de Larosière analyses the problems with the originate-and-distribute model and what regulatory response is required
Early lessons from the crunch
A report on of the current debates around the credit crisis and what it could mean for the future of central banking. Edited by Robert Pringle
Profile: Randall Kroszner
Malan Rietveld talks to the Fed’s leading man on regulation and asks him about the links between his academic work and policymaking
Interview: Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller, one of the leading authorities on the American housing market and the structured products built around it, talks to Malan Rietveld about the causes of the current crisis and the policy response
Fed should have spoken out on housing bubble
The Federal Reserve should have done more to alert American consumers to the bubble in the real estate market, Robert Shiller, an economics professor at Yale, said in an exclusive interview with Central Banking, published on Thursday.
Canadian banks want action on collateral reform
Canada's biggest banks have urged Jim Flaherty, the country's finance minister, to quickly grant the central bank greater powers to set collateral requirements, local media reports have said.
Eurozone banks toughen lending standards
Borrowing across the eurozone became harder for both the region's businesses and consumers in the three months to March, the latest European Central Bank lending survey reveals.
BoE: the worst is over
Financial conditions are set to improve in the coming months as investors recognise that prices in credit markets now overestimate risk, the Bank of England said on Thursday.
Denmark values euro's stabilising powers
The existence of the euro has been an advantage to the Danish economy during the current financial crisis, said Nils Bernstein, the governor of the National Bank of Denmark.
Swiss join calls for bank pay reform
Jean-Pierre Roth, chairman of the governing board of the Swiss National Bank, has urged a complete rethink of commercial banks' corporate governance and pay schedules in the wake of the credit crisis and recent trading scandals.
Europe set for slowdown: IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects the oft-repeated maxim that "if the US economy sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold" will hold as far as Europe is concerned.