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2007 Q2 Contents

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Summary
   
Recent economic and financial developments

Markets and operations (1.6mb)
Box - Recent developments in loan covenants
Box - Credit spreads, recovery rates and changes in corporate capital structure
Box - Constant proportion debt obligations

   
Research and analysis

Public attitudes to inflation and interest rates (773k)
Box - Assessing inflation expectations using the Bank/GfK NOP survey

National saving (488k)

Understanding investment better: insights from recent research (564k)
Box - The neoclassical theory of capital

Financial globalisation, external balance sheets and economic adjustment (728k)
Box - Some evidence on international risk-sharing
Box - Estimating the market-value currency breakdown of the UK balance sheet

Summaries of recent Bank of England working papers (210k)
The real exchange rate and quality improvements

Comparing the pre-settlement risk implications of alternative clearing arrangements

An affine macro-factor model of the UK yield curve

Forecast combination and the Bank of England's suite of statistical forecasting models

Housing equity as a buffer: evidence from UK households

Inter-industry contagion between UK life insurers and UK banks: an event study

   
Report
A review of the work of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee in 2006 (351k)
   
Speeches

The MPC ten years on (674k)
Delivered by the Governor to the Society of Business Economists on 2 May 2007

The City's growth: the crest of a wave or swimming with the stream? (256k)
Speech by Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor for financial stability, given at the Bank of England to the London Society of Chartered Accountants on 26 March 2007

The changing pattern of savings: implications for growth and inflation (633k)
Speech by Andrew Sentance, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, given at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Scottish Economics Society Annual Lecture on 15 March 2007

Interest rate changes - too many or too few? (426k)
Speech by Kate Barker, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, given at the CBI North East Dinner on 20 March 2007

A perspective on recent monetary and financial system developments (339k)
Speech by Paul Tucker, Executive Director for Markets and Monetary Policy Committee member, given at a Merrill Lynch conference on 26 April 2007
Recent developments in the UK economy: the economics of walking about (546k)
Bernard Corry Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor David Blanchflower, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, at Queen Mary, University of London on 30 May 2007

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