Speeches - By Date

Here are the details of speeches made by Bank personnel which have been made available to the public in 2006.

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000
1999 1998 1997

2006

21.12.06 Through the Looking Glass:
Reform of the International Institutions (56k)
Speech by the Governor, Inaugural International Distinguished Lecture to the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies, Australia

14.12.06 Pricing for Perfection (106k)
Speech by Sir John Gieve at the Bank of England to a group of market participants

11.12.06 Roy Bridge Memorial Lecture by Paul Tucker: Macro, Asset Price and Financial System Uncertainties
(133k)

30.11.06 Risks to the Commercial Property Market and Financial Stability (21k)
Speech by Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director, Financial Stability to the IPD/IPF Property Investment Conference, Brighton

27.11.06 Perspectives on Current Monetary Policy
Speech by Rachel Lomax to the Cardiff Business Club
(42k)

16.11.06 Speech by Mervyn King, Governor
at the Best of the Black Country Awards in Wolverhampton.
(21k)

13.11.06 Practical Issues in Preparing for Cross-Border Financial Crises
Speech by Sir John Gieve at the Financial Stability Forum Workshop: Planning and Communication for Financial Crises and Business Continuity Incidents (added to website on 16 November 2006).
(29k)

01.11.06 International Monetary Stability - Can The IMF Make a Difference?
Lecture by Rachel Lomax at the Gam Gilbert De Botton Award Lecture
(51k)

29.10.06 Trusting in Money: From Kirkcaldy to the MPC
The Adam Smith Lecture 2006
Speech by the Governor in Kirkcaldy, Scotland
(72k)

26.10.06 Managing a bank-specific crisis: A UK perspective
Presentation by Ian Bond at a BBA workshop on managing a bank-specific crisis
(added to website on 10 January 2007)
(40k)

24.10.06 "Globalisation and Inflation"
Speech by Charles Bean to the LSE Economics Society, London School of Economics
(44k)
Accompanying PowerPoint Slides (124k)

20.10.06 Prudential regulation, risk management and systemic stability
Remarks by Alastair Clark at the China International Banking Convention Beijing, China
(42k)

17.10.06
Hedge Funds and Financial Stability
Speech by Sir John Gieve at the HEDGE 2006 Conference
(62k)

10.10.06 Speech by Mervyn King, Governor
at the Great Hall in Winchester
(35k)

27.09.06 Reflections on my first four votes on the MPC
Speech by Professor David Blanchflower at breakfast with contacts of the Bank's Agency in Wales
(131k)

26.09.06 The Puzzle of UK Business Investment
Speech by Sir John Gieve at the University of the West of England
(47k)

26.08.06 Jackson Hole Symposium
Comments by Charles Bean in response to a paper by Ken Rogoff – "Impact of Globalization on Monetary Policy" in Wyoming, USA.
(99k)

25.07.06 Financial System Risks in the UK
- Issues and Challenges
Speech by Sir John Gieve at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation Roundtable
(184k)

20.07.06 Stability and Change
Speech by Sir John Gieve to the Engineering Employers' Federation North West
(123k)

21.06.06 Mansion House Dinner
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House.
(108k)

12.06.06 Speech at a dinner hosted by Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce (ECC)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor in Scotland
(110k)

30.05.06 Are Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy?
Remarks delivered by Stephen Nickell at the Annual Conference of the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti at Portovenere, La Spezia on 27 May 2006 (this makes reference to the 'Patterns of Work across the OECD' paper below).
(143k)

30.05.06 Patterns of Work Across the OECD
Joint paper by Guilia Faggio* and Stephen Nickell
27 May 2006
* Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics
(236k)

25.05.06 Reflections on Operating Inflation Targeting
Paper delivered by Paul Tucker at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago
(148k)

19.05.06 Uncertainty, the Implementation of Monetary Policy and the Management of Risk
Speech by Paul Tucker to the Association of Corporate Treasurers in Newport
(671k)

18.05.06 A Shift in the Balance of Risks
Speech by David Walton at a lunch organised by the Bank of England’s Central Southern Agency
(128k)

25.04.06 The UK Current Account Deficit and All That
Paper by Stephen Nickell
(157k)

21.03.06 Speech by Kate Barker
At a CBI West Midlands 2006 Economic Dinner in Birmingham
(137k)

13.03.06 The Budget of 1981 Was Over the Top
Speech by Stephen Nickell to be delivered at an Institute of Economic Affairs panel discussion in London on
16 March 2006
(60k)

23.02.06 Has Oil Lost the Capacity to Shock?
Speech by David Walton, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, to the University of Warwick Graduates' Association Senior Directors' Forum in London
(230k)

20.02.06 Reform of the International Monetary Fund
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi, India
(121k)

31.01.06 Monetary Policy, Demand and Inflation
Speech by Stephen Nickell, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee. A shortened version of this speech was given at a private lunch in London for contacts of the Bank of England’s South East and East Anglia Agency.
(192k)

24.01.06
Remarks by Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor, at a Chatham House Conference on Global Financial Imbalances
in London
(76k)
Accompanying PowerPoint Slides (100k)

23.01.06 Central Bank Communications: Best Practices in Advanced Economies
Speech by Richard Lambert, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, at the IMF Sponsored Regional Seminar on Central Bank Communications in Mumbai, India
(114k)

16.01.06 Speech at a Dinner for Kent Business Contacts in Conjunction with the Kent Messenger Group/Kent Business
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor
in Ashford, Kent on 16 January 2006
(103k)