Monetary policy
Bank of Japan Minutes
MINUTES - Bank of Japan, Minutes of the Monetary Policy Meeting on 18 September.
Economists say King should prepare for BoE top job
ARTICLE - Wanted from Spring 2003: a safe pair of hands to steer British monetary policy through economic storms and likely turbulence over European monetary union.
Polish PM - Govt won't curb c bank independence
POLAND - Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller pledged Thursday 25 October in his maiden policy address to parliament that his new government will take no steps to curb the independence of the central bank and its rate-setting Monetary Policy Council, or…
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
REPORT - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting, 29 October. Outlook and Risk Assessment of the Economy and Prices (October 2001).
Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting
REPORT - Bank of Japan Monetary Policy Meeting, 29 October. Announcement of the Monetary Policy Meeting decisions (unchanged).
Speech by Alfred Broaddus President Richmond Fed
SPEECH - Remarks by J. Alfred Broaddus, Jr., President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, at the Fall Business Forum Luncheon, Lenoir-Rhyne College Business Council, Hickory, NC, 16 October.
Thai central bank set to streamline four units
THAILAND - The Bank of Thailand is restructuring its four organisational units: the financial institutions policy group, monetary policy group, fund operations (Financial Institutions Development Fund) and the office of the governor.
BOK to pursue flexible monetary policy
SOUTH KOREA - The Bank of Korea (BOK) will manage its monetary policy in a flexible manner, paying attention to its effect on the real economy, BOK governor Chon Chol-hwan said Thursday in a speech.
European Central Bank - Monetary Policy Decisions
ECB PRESS RELEASE - Monetary policy decisions, 25 October 2001.
Speech by Kate Barker of the Bank of England
SPEECH - Speech by Kate Barker, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England delivered at the Royal Bank of Scotland/ Scottish Economic Society Annual Lecture, Edinburgh on 23 October.
Speech by Lars Heikensten of Sweden's central bank
SPEECH - Speech by First Deputy Governor Lars Heikensten of Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden's central bank, Stockholm, 23 October.
Fourth Bank member alludes to rate cut
UK - Kate Barker last night became the fourth member of the Bank of England's monetary policy committee in a week to hint at approval for future interest rate cuts. Her hint came in a speech to bankers and economists in Edinburgh.
Heikensten - Policy could move in either direction
SWEDEN - The first deputy governor of Sweden's Riksbank, Lars Heikensten, on Tuesday noted that inflation should fall to target levels in the long-term, but near-term uncertainties mean monetary policy could either be eased or tightened in the months…
Schroeder: ECB monetary policy can be improved
GERMANY - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Friday that the European Central Bank's monetary policy could be improved.
Rate cut row mars summit
GERMANY - The European Union has called for the European Central Bank (ECB) to take "further decisive action" in easing monetary policy in order to boost the eurozone's economy.
Soros lashes out at ECB
US - George Soros, the billionaire financial expert, has lashed out at the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB).
ECB's Hamalainen urges speedier market integration
IRELAND - European Central Bank board member Sirkka Hamalainen has urged euro zone countries to speed up the integration of financial markets and help the implementation of monetary policy in the 12-member currency bloc.
Testimony of the Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
TESTIMONY - Testimony of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan, before the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, 17 October.
Minutes of Bank of England MPC meeting 3-4 October
MINUTES - The Bank of England has published the minutes from its Monetary Policy Committee meeting held on 3 and 4 October.
Minutes of Bank of England special MPC meeting
MINUTES - The Bank of England has published the minutes from its special Monetary Policy Committee meeting held on 18 September.
BOE Oct minutes: MPC voted 8-1 to cut repo rate
UK - The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted 8-1 to cut the repo rate by a quarter percentage point to 4.5% in October, just weeks after it had cut rates by an equal amount in a 7-2 vote, according to minutes of those meetings released…
Discussion paper from the Bank of England
RESEARCH - Bank of England External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No.6 by Nicoletta Batini and Edward Nelson, October 2001, Friedman Revisited.
Discussion paper from the Bank of England
RESEARCH - Bank of England External MPC Unit Discussion Paper No.5 by Bennett T. McCallum and Edward Nelson, October 2001, Monetary Policy for an Open Economy.
Japan's policy board keep monetary policy same
JAPAN - The Bank of Japan's policy board voted Friday 12 October to keep monetary policy unchanged, brushing aside mounting domestic and international pressure for the BOJ to flood the banking system with more cash to help support the sagging economy.