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2008 Q1 Contents

Each article is available as a separate pdf file; click on the appropriate title to access the relevant file. Alternatively you may download the complete issue (6.5mb).
   
Summary
   
Recent economic and financial developments

Markets and operations (1.5mb)
Box - A model-based decomposition of sterling government yield curves
Box - Repayment of part of the 'Ways and Means' facility
Box - The injection of reserves via bond-purchase OMOs

   
Research and analysis
Capital inflows into EMEs since the millennium: risks and the potential impact of a reversal (651k)
Box - Balance of payments in EMEs
Recent developments in portfolio insurance (2.2mb)
Box - The mechanics of CPPI
Box - The performance of CPPI
Box - Popular features in CPPI investments
The Agents' scores: a review (481k)
Box - Collecting and reporting economic intelligence
Box - Filling information gaps
The impact of low-cost economies on UK import prices (471k)

The Society of Business Economists' survey on MPC communications (506k)
Survey data are available in Excel format (119k)

Summaries of recent Bank of England working papers (214k)
Risks and efficiency gains of a tiered structure in large-value payments: a simulation approach

Monetary policy shifts and inflation dynamics

The integrated impact of credit and interest rate risk on banks: an economic value and capital adequacy perspective

Financial innovation, macroeconomic stability and systemic crises

Evolving international inflation dynamics: evidence from a time-varying dynamic factor model

That elusive elasticity and the ubiquitous bias: is panel data a panacea?

Efficient frameworks for sovereign borrowing

International monetary co-operation in a world of imperfect information

Summary statistics of option-implied probability density functions and their properties

   
Speeches

The Governor's speech in Bristol (154k)
Given at a dinner hosted by the IoD South West and the CBI at the Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol on 22 January 2008

The impact of the financial market disruption on the UK economy (585k)
Speech by Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor for financial stability, given to the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on 17 January 2008
The return of the credit cycle: old lessons in new markets (382k)
Speech by Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor for financial stability, given at the Euromoney Bond Investors Congress on 27 February 2008
Money and credit: banking and the macroeconomy (1mb)
Speech by Paul Tucker, Executive Director for Markets and member of the Monetary Policy Committee, given at the Monetary Policy and the Markets Conference on 13 December 2007
Financial markets and household consumption (434k)
Speech by Professor Tim Besley, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, given at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London on 18 February 2008

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