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2008 Q2 Contents

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Summary
   
Recent economic and financial developments

Markets and operations (1.7mb)
Box - Box Special Liquidity Scheme
Box - Term money market rates

   
Research and analysis
Public attitudes to inflation and interest rates (768k)
Box - Additional questions in the February 2008 Bank/GfK NOP survey
Recent advances in extracting policy-relevant information from market interest rates (3.6mb)
Box - Interest rate concepts and measurement
How do mark-ups vary with demand? (399k)
On the sources of macroeconomic stability (577k)
Box - Volatility of expenditure components, employment and productivity
Box - Econometric studies of the causes of the Great Moderation

Summaries of recent Bank of England working papers (232k)
Network models and financial stability

Non-linear adjustment of import prices in the European Union

The elasticity of substitution: evidence from a UK firm-level data set

Dealing with country diversity: challenges for the IMF credit union model

Investigating the structural stability of the Phillips curve relationship
 
Report
A review of the work of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee in 2007 (327k)
   
Speeches

Sovereign wealth funds and global imbalance (679k)
Speech by Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor for financial stability, given at the Sovereign Wealth Management Conference, London on 14 March 2008

Monetary policy and the financial system (242k)
Speech by Paul Tucker, Executive Director for Markets and member of the Monetary Policy Committee, given at the Institutional Money Market Funds Association Annual Dinner on 2 April 2008
Inflation and the global economy (534k)
Speech by Professor Tim Besley, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, delivered at the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, London on 22 April 2008
Does sterling still matter for monetary policy? (515k)
Speech by Andrew Sentance, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, delivered to the Confederation of British Industry, Centre Point, London on 23 April 2008
Strengthening regimes for controlling liquidity risk: some lessons from the recent turmoil (433k)
Speech by Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director for financial stability, given at the Euromoney Conference on Liquidity and Funding Risk Management on 24 April 2008
Inflation, expectations and monetary policy (575k)
Speech by Professor David Blanchflower, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, delivered at the Royal Society, George Street , Edinburgh on 29 April 2008

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