Opinion
A question of balance at the ECB
ARTICLE - Although the European Central Bank is independent and sets policy on a eurozone-wide basis, a huge effort is made to keep representation of the constituent nations in balance.
BSP chief started out as a credit investigator
FEATURE - It is hard to imagine how today's business icons once lugged heavy books to sell, worked at the school canteen, sold pens and paper.
Central Banker of the Year
ARTICLE - The Banker magazine published in London has awarded Mugur Isarescu, Governor of the Central Bank of Romania the title, Central Banker of the Year. Three other governors from the Philippines, Chile and Botswana won regional titles.
Stamp of approval
ARTICLE - So just why has DeAnne Julius, the American former member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee, taken out dual UK nationality? City types point darkly to a Bank of England connection.
Drachmas to euro, money exhibit opens at NY Fed
ARTICLE - The Federal Reserve is hoping that the power of money will lure visitors to a lower Manhattan exhibit at a time when other downtown museums are having trouble.
Let pounds and euros compete
ARTICLE - For well over a decade there has been a ceaseless political battle over whether Britain ought to join the euro. The introduction of euro notes and coins at the beginning of this year has raised the decibel level of the controversy but has not…
Israel's regulatory easing
ARTICLE - Some $260 billion (290.39 billion euros) in Israeli financial assets is walled up inside the country by regulations, discriminatory taxes and investor conservatism, kept pacified by high domestic interest rates.
Argentina's woes are not solved
ARTICLE - The new Argentine government of President Eduardo Duhalde has started decisively. It took little time to devalue the peso and sketch out a new economic strategy. But the policy remains full of holes. Rather than follow the successful recent…
Capital flow and soundness of regulation
LETTER - A letter published in the London Financial Times, 8 January 2002.
Argentina's route to salvation
ARGENTINA - A competitive exchange rate, a more open economy and sound banks should be the priorities, says Ricardo Haussmann professor of economic development at Harvard in Todays's Financial Times.
Rojo: Keynesian policies are no longer an option
SPAIN - Perhaps the most influential economist in Spain in recent times, Luis Angel Rojo has devoting most of his professional career to servicing the Spanish economy in the country's central bank, the Bank of Spain. In an interview with El Pais…
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How to Dollarize in Argentina
‘How to Dollarize in Argentina’ by Kurt Schuler and Steve H Hanke. As the policies of the Argentine government are at a dead end and the peso is widely distrusted, Schuler and Hanke present their proposals for dollarization.
Central Bank Independence in Latin America
Legal Central Bank Independence and Inflation in Latin America During the 1990s by Jacome H., Luis I ; an IMF Working Paper.
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A tale of two central banks
ARTICLE - The annals of 2001 will feature many heroes and villains. Among them will be central bankers.
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Hanke's View on Argentina
In a paper published earlier this month by Cato in their foreign policy series Professor Steve Hanke outlines his views on solutions for the crisis in Argentina. In 1991 Professor Hanke advised the then Argentine government on the establishment of the…
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