Monetary Policy

IMF will lose a third senior official

WASHINGTON - Jack Boorman is planning to leave the IMF, probably later this year. Fund officials were quick to stress that Mr Boorman had been at the IMF for 25 years and that his leaving was not a shock.

Central Banking Journal May 2001 edition now out

Central Banking Vol. XI, No. 4 was published 8 May 2001. This edition includes exclusive interviews with Maurice O'Connell, Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland, Syahril Sabirin, Governor of Bank Indonesia and Hans Tietmeyer, former Bundesbank…

Banks refusing funds from BOJ

JAPAN - Japanese monetary policy encountered a significant hitch yesterday, 9 May, after it failed to persuade banks to accept any more funds. The money was virtually free as interest rates in Japan are close to zero.

Klein to hold talks with Israel's prime minister

ISRAEL - David Klein, governor of the Central Bank of Israel is to meet with Ariel Sharon, the prime minister of Israel, in the next few days in an attempt to resolve the dispute which led Mr Klein to shelve a cut in interest rates at the end of April.

OECD Economic Outlook

RESEARCH - The OECD's Chief Economist, Ignazio Visco, presented the analysis and projections contained in the Economic Outlook No. 69 at a news conference at OECD headquarters in Paris on 3 May. The publication is available in English, French and German…

US households more buoyant than generally believed

ARTICLE - The financial position of US households ranks high on the list of concerns about the economic and financial outlook. The fear is that a negative personal saving rate and record debt-to-income levels point to a potential sharp retrenchment in…

A Simple Model for Inflation in Brazil

RESEARCH - Working Paper No. 18 from the Bank of Brazil develops a model to investigate the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. The paper also describes the results of stochastic simulations designed to investigate the behaviour of various optimal…

Price level convergence and inflation in Europe

A paper by John H. Rogers at the Federal Reserve "Price level convergence, relative prices, and inflation in Europe" finds evidence to support the concept of price level convergence and investigates the extent to which divergence of national inflation…

Interview with Governor of Malaysian CB

SPEECH - The Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia gave an Interview for the Banking Supplement 2001 of The Star newspaper on 30 April 2001. The Governor gave his views on the developments, challenges and opportunities facing the Malaysian banking…

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