Central Banking Journal - Volume XXXIV Number 3
Articles in this issue
A new climate of change
Central banks are warming up to address climate risks just as US interest cools
People: January to March 2024
A round-up of central bankers in the news and on the move during the past three months
Banknotes: January to March 2024
A round-up of news and salient issues that have affected central bankers in the past three months
Richard Byles on Jamaica’s inflation-targeting baptism of fire
The Bank of Jamaica governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about forex interventions, setting up digital disruptor banks and the next steps for Jam-dex
The risks facing the Chinese economy
China isn’t at risk of a financial meltdown, but it does face a slow puncture, writes Michael Taylor
Ghana’s Ernest Addison on the chain of events that led to a loss of $5 billion
The Bank of Ghana governor speaks with Christopher Jeffery about what necessitated monetary financing, the boundaries of ‘independence’ and the results of offline tests of the e-cedi
Sooner or later, Argentina should dollarise
Dollarisation would be straitjacket, says Steve Kamin, but still looks preferable to the other options
Governance and diversity at the Federal Reserve
Could changes in governance practices have contributed to poor performance in 2021–22? asks Jeffrey Lacker
Finance ministry rep: a guest, a partner or an intruder?
Many central banks let government officials participate in policy meetings. Is that wise?
Training central bank communicators
The skills needed for communicating in a social media and artificial intelligence world
Karnit Flug on the Bank of Israel’s emergency responses and challenges ahead
The former Israeli central bank governor and current vice-president of the Israel Democracy Institute speaks with Christopher Jeffery about the BoI’s targeted emergency responses, economic uncertainties and central banking independence
Regulating data use: implications of data sitting in the middle
Regulators need to take action to ease tensions created by the growing use of data, says Manoj Singh
CBDCs are unlikely to be successful
Most money is already digital, and currency has lost its central function, writes former Barbados governor DeLisle Worrell
Book notes: Easy money, by Dror Goldberg
Interesting interpretations but hard to view 1690s Massachusetts paper as the invention of modern currency
Book notes: The ruble: a political history, by Ekaterina Pravilova
Indispensable reading for anyone interested in Russia and comparative, long-term historical accounts of monetary ideologies and practice
Book notes: The economic government of the world 1933–2023, by Martin Daunton
A deep dive into the politics, personalities, trade theory and trade practice of the era, but missing a crucial element: the collapse in the US stock of money
Book notes: Number go up: inside crypto’s wild rise and staggering fall, by Zeke Faux
The book would be a great, comic obituary of crypto, if only crypto were dead
