Research
Survey of Professional Forecasters
RESEARCH - The U.S. economy will rebound sooner rather than later, according to 35 forecasters surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. The forecasters expect stronger growth over the next three quarters than they projected in the survey of…
Bank of England Discussion Paper
RESEARCH - Bank of England, External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No.7 'The Future of Macroeconomic Policy in the European Union' by Christopher Allsopp, February 2002.
Bank of England Working Paper
RESEARCH - Bank of England Working Paper Series, How uncertain are the welfare costs of inflation? by Hasan Bakhshi, Ben Martin and Tony Yates, 22 February.
Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin, February 2002
REPORT - RBA Statement on Monetary Policy, 21 February 2002.
Reserve Bank of Australia Bulletin, February 2002
REPORT - RBA Recent Developments in Small Business Finance, 21 February 2002.
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.
Central bank intervention and foreign ex rates
RESEARCH - Michel Beine, Agnes Benassy-Quere, Christelle Lecourt, Central bank intervention and foreign exchange rates: new evidence from FIGARCH estimations from the Journal Of International Money And Finance, Volume 21, Issue 1, 01-February-2002.
ECB Working Papers Series
RESEARCH - Performance of monetary policy with internal central bank forecasting, by Seppo Honkapohja and Kaushik Mitra, February 2002.
Central bank research paper by Alain Durre
RESEARCH - Would it be optimal for central banks to include asset prices in their loss function? by Alain Durre, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES).
ECB Monthly Bulletin, February 2002
REPORT - The European Central Bank has published its latest Monthly Report for February 2002.
Bank of England Inflation Report - February 2002
REPORT - The Bank of England has published its latest quarterly inflation report for February 2002, 13 February.
CGFS release report on IT innovation and financing
PRESS RELEASE - Under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS) is today releasing a report entitled IT innovations and financing patterns: implications for the financial system, 13…
Committee on the Global Financial System (CGFS)
REPORT - IT innovations and financing patterns: implications for the financial system, February 2002.
Bank of Japan Monthly Report - English text
REPORT - Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments from the Bank of Japan, February 2002. Full English text available 13 February.
Bank of Japan Monthly Report
REPORT - Monthly Report of Recent Economic and Financial Developments from the Bank of Japan, February 2002.
Reserve Bank of Australia Report
REPORT - The latest quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy has been released by the RBA, 11 February.
When can we forcast inflation?
RESEARCH - Article by Jonas D. M. Fisher, Chin Te Liu and Ruilin Zhou. Chicago Fed researchers show that inflation forecasting models, like the Phillips curve, may still provide sound predictions of inflation. They argue that time periods in which it is…
Dornbusch's Overshooting Model After 25 Years
RESEARCH - Second Annual IMF Research Conference, Mundell-Fleming Lecture, Kenneth Rogoff, Economic Counselor and Director of the IMF Research Department, 29 November 2001, (revised 22 January, 2002) released 7 February.
St Louis Fed report, Central Banker, Winter 2001
REPORT - Fed Releases Comprehensive Retail Payments Study, reports the Winter 2001 edition of the St Louis Fed's Central Banker.
Finance and Economics Discussion Series
RESEARCH - Federal Reserve Finance and Economics Discussion Series, Monetary Policy Rules and the Great Inflation by Athanasios Orphanides, January 2002.
Chicago Fed Letter, February 2002
REPORT - According to research in the latest Chicago Fed Letter, improvements in average worker skill levels have slowed and are likely to continue to slow the rest of this decade, which could negatively impact U.S. productivity growth in years to come.
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
REPORT - The Quantitative Impact Study for Operational Risk: Overview of Individual Loss Data and Lessons Learned, 28 January.
BIS Press Release
PRESS RELEASE - BIS international consolidated banking statistics - third quarter of 2001 released 28 January.
BIS consolidated international banking statistics
REPORT - The BIS consolidated international banking statistics - third quarter 2001 released 28 January.