Economics
We can overcome international snub - Iran deputy
Mohammad-Jaafar Mojarrad, the deputy governor of the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, said it is handling the impact of the US's plea to Europe's banks to stop trading dollars with the country.
Sri Lankan deputy on John Exter's legacy
W. A. Wijewardena, the deputy governor of the central bank of Sri Lanka, spoke on Monday about the how the ideas of the central bank's founder, John Exter, remained relevant today.
Russia wants Czech governor Tosovsky to head IMF
Russia has nominated Josef Tosovsky, the former head of the Czech National Bank and the current chair of the Bank for International Settlements' Financial Stability Institute, to take over from Rodrigo Rato at the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Central bank gold sales to approach limit
Members of the central bank gold agreement (essentially the eurozone plus Sweden and Switzerland) have sold 396 tonnes in the first 10 months of the "gold year", as much as the total for the whole of last year.
Paper on the new Keynesian Phillips curve
The Richmond Federal Reserve Paper, Inflation dynamics of the new Keynesian Phillips curve, derives the log-linear approximation of the inflation dynamics in the Calvo-model when the average inflation rate is positive.
Measuring exchange rates in poor countries
This International Monetary Fund paper examines the difficulties in determining the real exchange rate in low-income countries.
RBA's Stevens testifies to lawmakers
The Reserve Bank of Australia's governor, Glenn Stevens, and three senior officials were grilled on the impact of subprime, models used for forecasting and the prospects interest rates in an election year at this House of Representatives hearing.
Gono denies parallel trading by central bank
Gideon Gono, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, has denied reports that the central bank is tapping unofficial currency markets in search of foreign currency, notably dollar and South African rand.
Independence nothing new - Jamaican governor
Local media reports the governor of the Bank of Jamaica, Derek Lati-beaudiere, played down plans from the Jamaica Labour Party, the country's main opposition party, for an independent central bank.
Swedish Financial Market - 2007 review
The Swedish Riksbank has published the 2007 version of its annual review of the country's financial industry.
Canada investigates inflation, wages and growth
A new working paper published by the Bank of Canada looks at the relationship between steady-state costs of inflation in a general equilibrium model, output growth and staggered nominal price and wage contracts.
Sri Lankan governor on poverty and inequality
Aijith Nivard Cabraal, the governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, said that poverty and equality "are often the root causes of political, economic and social upheaval, tension and revolution."
BoJ survey shows little change in public mood
A Bank of Japan poll found most consumers remain pessimistic about the country's economy.
Greenspan to advise Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank, the German investment and retail bank, announced on Monday that it will retain Alan Greenspan, the former governor of the Federal Reserve, as a senior adviser.
IMF paper criticises UK's golden rule
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published a working paper which suggests improvements the United Kingdom's measure of fiscal performance - the golden rule.
Central banks continue to plug markets
On Friday, central banks around the world engaged in an orchestrated effort, initiated by the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve a day earlier, to keep money markets afloat amidst wide-spread fears of a global credit crunch.
Intervention fails to stem equities sell-off
The wide-scale intervention by central banks around the world on Thursday and Friday reduced spreads in domestic money markets, but failed to stop the declines in global stock markets.
Paper uncovers Japanese price-setting trends
A paper by the Bank of Japan has established four facts on price setting based on data in the retail price survey from 1989
India limits overseas borrowing
In an attempt to stem the rise in the rupee, the Reserve Bank of India said that companies borrowing overseas cannot remit more than $20 million to India in a single financial year.
IMF report on the US
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the US economy should shake off the effects of the housing market decline and expand by almost 3% by the middle of 2008.
Price setting behaviour in Japan
The Bank of Japan has published a working paper exploring micro price setting behaviour and price hazard functions.
Strengthening the economic leg of EMU
Klaus Regling looks at how economic-policy governance might evolve in the euro area
Towards better economic governance
It is high time Europe faced up to the realities of its economic governance gap, says Joachim Bitterlich
The evolution of Europe’s exchange rate regime
The euro area should develop procedures for reaching common positions on international economic-policy issues, argues Lorenzo Bini Smaghi