Speeches - By Subject
General

2007

Mansion House Dinner (33k)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House

2006

Speech by Mervyn King, Governor (21k)
at the Best of the Black Country Awards in Wolverhampton on 16 November 2006.

Mansion House Dinner (108k)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House on 21 June 2006.

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

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

The UK Current Account Deficit and All That (157k)
Paper by Stephen Nickell, 25 April 2006

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

Remarks by Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor, at a Chatham House Conference on Global Financial Imbalances (76k)
in London on 24 January 2006
Accompanying PowerPoint Slides (100k)

2005

Comments by Stephen Nickell on a paper by Rachel Griffith and Rupert Harrison "The Link between Product Market Reforms and Macro-Economic Performance" (115k)
At the European Commission Workshop on Structural Reforms and Macroeconomic Performance in Brussels on
18 November 2005
Accompanying PowerPoint Slides (35k)

Mansion House Dinner (113k)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House on 22 June 2005

Comments by Stephen Nickell on a paper by Romain Duval and Jorgen Elmeskov “The Effects of EMU on Structural Reforms in Labour and Product Markets” (86k)
At a conference held at the European Central Bank, Frankfurt
16-17 June 2005

The International Monetary System (86k)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Advancing Enterprise 2005 Conference in London on 4 February 2005

2004

What Fates Impose: Facing up to Uncertainty (398k)
Speech by the Governor at the Eighth British Academy
Annual Lecture, 2004 in London
on 1 December 2004

Global Demographic Change: Some Implications for Central Banks (103k)
Speech by Charles Bean, Chief Economist at the Overview Panel, FRB Kansas City Annual Symposium, Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 28 August 2004

Mansion House Dinner (88k)
Speech by Mervyn King, Governor, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House on 16 June 2004

Boring Bankers - Should We Listen? (130k)
Speech by Richard Lambert, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Institute for Public Policy Research, London on 22 April 2004

A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure
283k)
Speech by Stephen Nickell, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the London School of Economics, at the OECD, Paris on 26 March 2004
(Speech is an updated version of that previously given in Munich in December 2002)

2003

Mansion House Speech (76k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London, Mansion House on 18 June 2003

Islamic Home Finance Seminar (77k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor on Thursday 27 March 2003

"Economists and the Real World" (146k)
Speech by Charles Bean, Chief Economist, at a lecture to mark the centenary of the BSc (Econ) at the London School of Economics in London on Wednesday 29 January 2003

2002

A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure
(276k)
Speech by Stephen Nickell, member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the London School of Economics, at the Centre for Economic Studies in Munich, Germany on Friday 6 December 2002

Mansion House Speech (65k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London, Mansion House on 26 June 2002

"Contingency Planning and Systemic Stability" (22k)
Speech by Alastair Clark, Executive Director at the Association of Corporate Treasurersn in Birmingham on 16 April 2002 (added to the site on 18 April 2002)

Official Opening of the new Economics Building, Oxford University
(67k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor on 18 January 2002 (added to the site on 22 March 2002)

Euromoney Bond Investors' Congress (14k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the Euromoney Bond Investors' Congress in London on 19 February 2002

Bankers Club/Guild Banquet (9k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the Guildhall in London on 4 February 2002

Opportunity International UK's 10th Anniversary Reception
(11k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at Commerzbank in London on 22 January 2002

2001

Second City of London Biennial Meeting (19k)
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the International Maritime Organisation, London on 12 December 2001

Mansion House Speech
Speech by The Rt Hon Sir Edward George, Governor, at the Lord Mayor's Dinner for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London on 20 June 2001

The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from the 1960s to the 1990s (264k)
Paper by Stephen Nickell, at a Conference at the Bank of Portugal (3 June 2001)

2000

St Paul's Cathedral Lecture
Speech by The Rt Hon Edward George, Governor, at St Paul's Cathedral, London (28 November 2000)

The Bank of England - A Central Bank Post-Independence - Speech by David Clementi, Deputy Governor, at the Annual Sainer Lecture (14 November 2000)

Dragon Awards Dinner
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at the Dragon Awards Dinner (2 October 2000)

Iran Invest 2000 Conference
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at the Iran Invest 2000 Conference (28 September 2000)

Future of Central Banking
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at the Association of Professional Bankers Sri Lanka 12th Anniversary Convention (27 August 2000)

SEANZA Governors' Symposium
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at the Hilton Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka, (26 August 2000)

6th Arab Investment and Capital Markets Conference
Speech by William A Allen, Deputy Director, Beirut (18 May 2000)

ICAEW Conference
Speech by Deputy Governor, David Clementi, at the Chartered Accountants Hall, London (9 May 2000)

"Lunch 2000"
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, to the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce Industry and Prince's Trust at the Culloden Hotel, Co Down, Northern Ireland (26 January 2000)

1999

"Before the Millennium: From the City of London"
Speech by Eddie George, Governor, at a City University Conference at the International Maritime Organisation (7 December 1999)

1998

Central Bankers and Uncertainty (194k)
Speech by CAE Goodhart (Member of the Monetary Policy Committee) 29 October 1998

Governor's speech at the British-American Chamber of Commerce Lunch
(22 January 1998)