Research

International Monetary Fund Working Paper

RESEARCH - International Monetary Fund Working Paper 'Transparency and International Investor Behavior' by R Gaston Gelos and Shang-Jin Wei. The paper looks at whether country "transparency" affect international portfolio investment and finds that…

The ECB and Euro-Area Enlargement

RESEARCH - IMF Working Paper by Helge Berger, October 2002. The likely enlargement of euro-area membership will radically change the environment under which monetary policy will be made in the euro area. This paper looks at the consequences of such an…

Danmarks Nationalbank Monetary Review, 3rd Quarter

REPORT - Denmark's central bank has published its Monetary Review 3rd Quarter 2002. The report contains articles including, Recent Economic and Monetary Trends, Status of the Basle Committee's New Capital-Adequacy Rules for Bank, Structure of the Banks'…

MAS Guidelines on Sound Risk Management Practice

REPORT - On 30 October the Monetary Authority of Singapore published its Guidelines on Sound Risk Management Practices. This set of guidelines aims to provide banks, merchant banks, finance companies and insurance companies (referred to collectively as …

Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey

REPORT - Activity in the region's manufacturing sector weakened this month, according to firms surveyed for the October Business Outlook Survey. Indicators for general activity, new orders, and shipments declined from their readings in September. Overall…

IMF report on the Policies of the Euro Area

REPORT - International Monetary Fund Staff Report on the Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies of the Euro Area. The report includes sections on movements towards greater central bank transparency, predictability of central bank interest rate decisions,…

Norges Bank's Inflation Report 3/2002

REPORT - Norway's central bank published its third and final Inflation Report for 2002 on 30 October. The Inflation Report discusses developments in the Norwegian economy and other factors that influence the inflation outlook. Developments in the…

Why Britain should join the euro

REPORT - Joining the euro will deliver rising prosperity for Britain - but failing to do so soon will put our hard-won economic success at risk, a group of Britain's leading economists argue in a report published 15 October by pro-European campaign group…

Financial structures in the euro area

REPORT - The European Central Bank (ECB) released a report on financial structures in the euro area on 25 October. The report describes the financial structure of the euro area as a whole and of the individual euro area countries, recent developments in…

Bank of Canada Monetary Policy Report

REPORT - Bank of Canada released its October 2002 Monetary Policy Report, 23 October. In the report the Bank of Canada said the Canadian economy has undergone a strong expansion with more rapid growth than all other G-7 countries over the past year…

Federal Reserve Board - Beige Book, October 2002

REPORT - The Federal Reserve Beige Book released 23 October showed that the US economy is struggling to get out of the sluggishness which has now infected retail sales. The report shows the housing market to be the one bright spot in an otherwise weak…

ECB Working Paper Series

RESEARCH - 'Should central banks really be flexible?', by Hans Peter Gruner, October 2002. The paper looks at a model where risk averse trade unions interact with a central bank. Gruner shows that central bank flexibility is not necessarily desirable…

BIS consolidated banking statistics

REPORT - The BIS today released consolidated banking statistics for the Second Quarter 2002. These statistics provide an insight into the nature and extent of banks' foreign exposures, as well as supplementary information about countries' external…

ECB Working Paper Series

RESEARCH - 'Monetary policy and the zero bound to interest rates: a review', by Tony Yates, October 2002. The paper reviews the literature on what the zero bound to nominal interest rates implies for the conduct of monetary policy. A situation familiar…

Federal Reserve Board Discussion Paper

RESEARCH - 'Monetary Union, Price Level Convergence, and Inflation: How Close is Europe to the United States?' by John H. Rogers, published 21 October. In the article the author examines the decline in European price level dispersion and whether this…

Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk

REPORT - A collection of papers that were either presented or are based on presentations at the Third Joint Central Bank Research Conference on Risk Measurement and Systemic Risk, which took place in Basel on 7 and 8 March 2002 at the Bank for…

BIS Working Paper

RESEARCH - 'Changes in market functioning and central bank policy: an overview of the issues', by Marvin J Barth III, Eli M Remolona and Philip D Wooldridge, October 2002.

Sveriges Riksbank Inflation Report 3rd Q 2002

REPORT - Sweden's central bank has published its Inflation Report for the third quarter of 2002. Since the time of the June Report inflation has come down somewhat more than was expected. In August the 12-month changes in the CPI and UND1X were 2.0 and 2…

Bank of Japan Monthly Report, October 2002

REPORT - The Bank of Japan published its Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments, October 2002, on 16 October. In its report the Bank says that Japan's economy has stabilised as a whole, but clear signs of recovery have not yet been…

RBA Bulletin - October 2002

REPORT - The Reserve Bank of Australia published its October 2002 Bulletin on 17 October. The Bulletin contains articles on Developments in the Trade-Weighted Index, Dual-listed Companies and The Changing Composition of the Australian Workforce.

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