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- ECB Keeps Interest Rates at 4 Percent
- ATHENS (Reuters UK) - The European Central Bank kept benchmark interest rates unchanged at 4.0 percent on Thursday, as expected, as policymakers weigh the risk of high inflation against concerns about euro zone economic growth. ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet will present the Governing Council's latest...
- News items 2008-05-08
- Bank Split Over April Rate Cut
- By Paul Majendie and Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - Two Bank of England policymakers opposed this month's decision to cut interest rates by a quarter-point, preferring to hold them steady, but another wanted to slash borrowing costs by 50 basis points. The first three-way split...
- News items 2008-04-23
- House Prices Post First Annual Decline in 12 Yrs
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - House prices fell for the sixth month running in April to stand 1.0 percent lower than a year ago -- the first annual fall in more than 12 years, the Nationwide building society said on Wednesday. That came a day after a...
- News items 2008-04-30
- House Prices Post Biggest Fall Since 1993
- By Matt Falloon and Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - House prices took their steepest annual fall in 15 years in April, data from the country's biggest mortgage lender showed on Friday, stoking fears of a deep downturn this year. The weak figures from HBOS come...
- News items 2008-05-02
- BoE Leaves UK Rates at 5 Percent, Cut Seen Next Month
- By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England kept British interest rates at 5.0 percent on Thursday but analysts say a slowing economy will force it to cut borrowing costs next month, even though inflation is heading higher. House prices are...
- News items 2008-05-08
- Do Capital Adequacy Requirements Matter for Monetary Policy?
- Central bankers and financial supervisors often have different goals. While monetary policymakers want to ensure that there are always sufficient lending activities to maintain high and stable economic growth, supervisors work to limit banks lending capacities in order to prevent excessive risk-taking. To avoid working at cross-purposes, central bankers need...
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Evidence of Evidence-Based Health Policy: The Politics of Systematic Reviews in Coverage Decisions
- U.S. policymakers are making greater use of findings from systematic reviews, the principal product of the discipline of research synthesis. This paper summarizes the methodology and availability of systematic reviews and the brief history of their introduction to policymakers in the public and private sectors and health professionals in the...
- White papers 2005-02-01
- Evidence-Based Medicine and Policy: The Case of the Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator
- This white paper provides information about the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) which is a costly new treatment for patients at high risk of sudden cardiac death. Randomized trials of the ICD showed it to be effective in some groups of patients but not in others. While new trials testing the...
- White papers 2004-12-09
- Non-cooperative Monetary and Fiscal Policy: The Value of Leadership
- This paper considers leadership equilibria in dynamic linear rational expectations models with specific reference to monetary and fiscal policy interactions. One must pay particular attention to the strategic relationships between policymakers and the private sector. One finds that in a dynamic game that although leadership may not matter much, giving...
- White papers 2004-05-14
- Has The Tradeoff Between Productivity Gains And Job Growth Disappeared?
- Policymakers' efforts to boost trend output growth may be hampered by the presence of a tradeoff between productivity gains and job creation. This paper presents empirical evidence that the negative relationship between productivity growth and employment growth that prevailed in the 1960s and 1970s has disappeared since then. This finding...
- White papers 2004-02-02
- Monetary Policy Transparency: Transparent About What?
- This paper puts the issue of monetary policy transparency into a broad economic perspective. In so doing, it narrows the focus from that which frequently appears in this literature. I argue that the sole economic argument for transparency is policy effectiveness. Transparency is desirable if it enhances the effectiveness of...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- What Can Account for Fluctuations in the Terms of Trade?
- Fluctuations in the terms of trade the price of a country's exports relative to the price of its imports are a source of perennial concern to policymakers in developing countries and industrialized nations alike. This paper seeks to understand the sources of fluctuations in the terms of trade. The goal...
- White papers 2000-12-01
- Recent Initiatives to Improve the Regulation and Supervision of Private Capital Flows
- In this paper, an attempt is made to put the changing attitudes of policymakers towards international capital flows into a broader economic and historical context. The paper then goes on to suggest that policymakers today wish, on the one hand, to achieve the benefits of freer capital flows while trying...
- White papers 2000-10-01
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- IMF Conditionality And Program Ownership: A Case For Streamlined Conditionality
- Program conditionality and ownership are important considerations in the IMF’S current rethinking of program design. This article contributes by developing a theory of program conditionality and ownership based on Cumulative Prospect Theory. The policymaker may value a set of program, each with a fewer conditions, more than an extended program...
- White papers 2003-05-01
- A Primer on Real Effective Exchange Rates: Determinants, Overvaluation, Trade Flows and Competitive Devaluation
- Several alternative measures of "effective" exchange rates are discussed in the context of their theoretical underpinnings and actual construction. Focusing on contemporary indices and recently developed econometric methods, the empirical characteristics of these differing series are examined, including the exchange rates for the U.S., the euro area and several East...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- BoE's Sentance Sees Inflation Risks on Both Sides
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England needs to balance upward pressures on inflation stemming from higher energy costs with downward pressures should the economic slowdown prove prolonged, according to policymaker Andrew Sentance. In a paper published in the World Economic Journal, Sentance warns...
- News items 2008-05-10
- Home Repossession Orders Surge
- By Matt Falloon and Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - More people in England and Wales are just one step away from losing their homes than at any time since the early 1990s as the credit crunch bites, figures showed on Friday, and experts say things...
- News items 2008-05-09
- Bank Leaves Rates at 5 Percent
- By Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England kept interest rates at 5.0 percent on Thursday but analysts say a slowing economy will force it to cut borrowing costs next month, even though inflation is heading higher. House prices are falling, consumer confidence...
- News items 2008-05-08
- Bank's Sentance Says Weak Pound Boosting Inflation Risk
- By Matt Falloon LONDON (Reuters UK) - The pound is likely to remain weak for some time, driving up inflationary pressures and helping to cushion the economy against the credit crunch, Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentance said on Wednesday. But the economy needs to slow...
- News items 2008-04-23
- House Prices Fall at Sharpest Pace Since 1993
- By Matt Falloon and Sumeet Desai LONDON (Reuters UK) - House prices suffered their steepest annual fall in 15 years in April, stoking fears of a deep downturn, as figures showed more than 25,000 people succumbed to bad debt in the first three months of the...
- News items 2008-05-02
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