Monetary policy
US Nobel laureate praises China's monetary policy
CHINA - Nobel Laureate Robert Mundell has praised China's monetary policy as "excellent" in a recent interview.
Dallas Fed's Economic and Financial Review
RESEARCH - "Banking and Currency Crisis Recovery: Brazil's Turnaround of 1999" analyzes the Brazilian recovery, focusing on the freedom Brazilian bank health gave the central bank to pursue a postcrisis monetary policy.
Chile central bank cuts rates 75 bp to 4.75%
CHILE - Chile's Central Bank lowered its benchmark monetary policy lending rate 75 basis points to a nominal 4.75% at a monthly policy making meeting Tuesday.
Arthur Grimes appointed to NZ c bank board
NEW ZEALAND - New Zealand's Finance Minister Michael Cullen said Wednesday that Arthur Grimes, one of the country's leading monetary policy specialists, had been appointed as a non-executive director of the Reserve Bank for a term of five years.
Speech by David Dodge of Bank of Canada, 12 Mar
SPEECH - Dodge said in the speech titled 'Monetary Policy Choices: The Canadian Experience' that the worst of the economic downturn was over, and said that the bank was accelerating its timetable for forecast economic recovery.
Bank of Canada Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - Bank of Canada Governor Reviews Canadian Monetary Policy Choices, 12 March.
Review of a new book on Monetary Policy
BOOK REVIEW - Monetary Policy Goals, Institutions, Strategies, and Instruments by Peter Bofinger published by Oxford University Press.
Domingo Solans says ECB monetary policy credible
SPAIN - The credibility of the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy is demonstrated by the euro zone's low inflation, ECB executive board member Eugenio Domingo Solans said on Saturday.
Minutes of Japan's Monetary Policy Meeting
MINUTES - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting Minutes from the 15 and 16 January, released 5 March.
European Central Bank Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - ECB Monetary Policy Decisions, 7 March.
BOJ minutes - Board voted 8-1 to keep policy
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan's policy board members voted 8-1 to keep monetary policy unchanged at their meeting on 15-16 January, according to the minutes of the meeting released Tuesday.
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting Decisions
PRESS RELEASE - At the Monetary Policy Meeting held on 28 February, the Bank of Japan decided, by majority vote, to set the following guideline for money market operations for the intermeeting period.
Testimony of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, 27 Feb
TESTIMONY - In his testimony before Congress Greenspan said the U.S. economic rebound this year is likely to be slightly weaker than Wall Street expects because the recovery may be restrained by a lack of consumer demand, industrial overcapacity and…
Monetary Policy Report to the Congress
REPORT - Federal Reserve Board Monetary Policy Report to the Congress, 27 February.
Speech by Nobuyuki Nakahara, Bank of Japan, 11 Dec
SPEECH - In the speech titled 'The Japanese Economy and Monetary Policy in a Deflationary Environment' Nakahara said the central bank should take radical monetary steps, including buying 200 billion yen ($1.59 billion) a month of foreign bonds or using…
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee Minutes
MINUTES - Minutes of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee meeting 6 and 7 February 2002. Released 20 February.
BOE minutes - MPC voted 7-2 to hold repo rate 4.0%
UK - Seven members of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep the repo rate on hold at 4.0% in February, according to minutes of the meeting released Wednesday.
Give Wadhwani a longer run at Bank
FEATURE - Sushil Wadhwani has denied a stock market rumour that he asked Gordon Brown to keep his seat on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee after his three-year term expires in May.
Speech by Miyako Suda of the Bank of Japan, 5 Nov
SPEECH - Based on a speech given by Miyako Suda, Member of the Policy Board, at the Meeting on Economic and Financial Matters in Saitama on November 5, 2001. It is a translated and revised version of the Japanese text released in November. Released 25…
ECB Working Paper Series
RESEARCH - Performance of monetary policy with internal central bank forecasting, by Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra, February 2002, ECB Working Paper No. 127.
ECB Working Papers Series
RESEARCH - Performance of monetary policy with internal central bank forecasting, by Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra, February 2002.
Reserve Bank of Australia Report
REPORT - The latest quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy has been released by the RBA, 11 February.
Bank of Japan - Monetary Policy Meetings
NEWS RELEASE - Monetary Policy announcement from the Bank of Japan, 8 February.
ECB Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - European Central Bank, Monetary Policy Decisions, 7 February.