Speeches - By Speaker
Here are the details of speeches made by Bank personnel which have been made available to the public sorted by speaker.
Current Staff
Mervyn King, Governor
Ms Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor, Monetary
Stability
Sir John Gieve, Deputy Governor, Financial
Stability
Charles Bean, Executive Director (Chief
Economist) and MPC Member
Ms Kate Barker, MPC Member
Tim Besley, MPC Member
Prof. David Blanchflower, MPC Member
Andrew Sentance, MPC Member
Paul Tucker, Executive Director and MPC
Member
Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director, Financial Stability
Other Bank Personnel
Former Staff
Mr Christopher Allsopp (Ceased to be
a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2003. Replaced by Richard Lambert)
Ms Marian Bell, (Ceased to be a member of
the MPC wef 30 June 2005. Replaced by David Walton)
Sir Alan Budd (Ceased to be a member of
the MPC wef 31 May 1999. Replaced by Dr Sushil Wadhwani)
Willem Buiter (Ceased to be a member of
the MPC wef 31 May 2000. Replaced by Professor Stephen Nickell)
Alastair Clark, Adviser to the Governor (retired on 5 April 2007)
(Executive Director between 1 March 1997 - 30 September 2003)
David Clementi (Ceased to be Deputy
Governor wef 31 August 2002. Replaced by Sir Andrew Large)
Sir Andrew Large, (Ceased to be Deputy Governor, Financial Stability and member of the MPC wef 16 January 2006.
Replaced by Sir John Gieve)
Edward George (Ceased to be Governor wef
30 June 2003. Replaced by Mervyn King)
Professor Charles Goodhart (Ceased to
be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2000. Replaced by Christopher
Allsopp)
DeAnne Julius (Ceased to be a member of
the MPC wef 31 May 2001. Replaced by Kate Barker)
Richard Lambert, (Ceased to
be a member of the MPC wef 23 March 2006. Replaced by Tim Besley)
Professor Stephen Nickell, (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2006. Replaced
by David Blanchflower)
Ian Plenderleith (Ceased to be an
Executive Director wef 31 May 2002. Replaced by Paul Tucker)
John Vickers (Ceased to be an Executive
Director wef 30 September 2000. Replaced by Charles Bean)
Dr Sushil Wadhwani (Ceased to be a member
of the MPC wef 31 May 2002. Replaced by Marian Bell)
David Walton, (Former MPC member who died on the 21 June 2006. Replaced by Andrew Sentance).
Mervyn King, Governor
1 July 2003 - Present
Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy, January 1998 - June 2003
Chief Economist and Executive Director, March 1991 - December
1998
Non-executive Director of the Bank, March 1990 - February 1991
Extract from a speech to the Bank of Israel, Jerusalem 
(20k)
on 31 March 2008
Speech at a dinner hosted by the IoD South West and the CBI at the Ashton Gate Stadium, Bristol (37k)
on 22 January 2008
Speech at the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Belfast (32k)
on 9 October 2007
Mansion House Dinner (33k)
At the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion House on 20 June 2007
Speech to a CBI Dinner, Wales (36k)
on 11 June 2007
The MPC Ten Years On (165k)
Lecture to the Society of Business Economists on 2 May 2007
Speech to the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet (35k)
on 23 January 2007
Through the Looking Glass:
Reform of the International Institutions (56k)
Inaugural International Distinguished Lecture
to the Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies, Australia on 21 December.
Speech at the Best of the Black Country Awards (21k)
in Wolverhampton on 16 November 2006.
Trusting in Money: From Kirkcaldy to the MPC
The Adam Smith Lecture 2006 (72k)
In Kirkcaldy, Scotland on 29 October 2006.
Speech at the Great Hall in Winchester
Given on 10 October 2006
(35k)
Mansion
House Dinner
(108k)
At the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants
of the City of London at the Mansion House on 21 June 2006.
Speech
at a dinner hosted by Scottish Financial Enterprise (SFE) and
Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce (ECC)
(110k)
In Scotland on 12 June 2006
Reform of the International Monetary Fund
(121k)
At the Indian Council for Research on International Economic
Relations (ICRIER) in New Delhi, India on 20 February 2006
Speech
at a Dinner for Kent Business Contacts in Conjunction with the
Kent Messenger Group/Kent Business
(103k)
in Ashford, Kent on 16 January 2006
CBI
North East Annual Dinner
(96k)
Given in Gateshead on 11 October 2005
Jackson
Hole Symposium
(82k)
Remarks to the Central Bank Governors’ Panel in Wyoming,
USA on 27 August 2005
Mansion House Dinner
(113k)
At the Lord Mayor’s Banquet for Bankers and Merchants
of the City of London at the Mansion House on 22 June 2005
Speech
at a Dinner at Salts Mill in Bradford, Yorkshire
(77k)
on 13 June 2005
Monetary
Policy: Practice Ahead of Theory
(294k)
Given at the Mais Lecture at the Cass Business School, City
University in London on 17 May 2005
The International Monetary System
(86k)
At the Advancing Enterprise 2005 Conference in London on 4 February
2005
Speech to the CBI Dinner in Manchester
(84k)
on 20 January 2005
What Fates Impose: Facing up to Uncertainty (398k)
Eighth British Academy Annual Lecture, 2004 in London
on 1 December 2004
Bank of England's Court Dinner at the Eden Project, Cornwall
(101k)
on 12 October 2004
Mansion House Dinner
(88k)
At the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the
City of London at the Mansion House on 16 June 2004
CBI Scotland Dinner
(89k)
Glasgow Hilton Hotel on 14 June 2004
Panel on EU/US Cooperation
(76k)
Opening Remarks at the Advancing Enterprise Conference, Queen
Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London on 26 January 2004
Annual Birmingham Forward/CBI Business Luncheon
(108k)
At Aston Villa Football Club in Birmingham on 20 January 2004
The
New Inflation Target Highlights of the Speech
The Institutions of Monetary Policy - The Ely Lecture 2004
(278k)
Lecture at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting,
San Diego on 4 January 2004
Final revised version updated 12 January 2004
Comments made on 3 January 2004 by Mervyn King, Governor
(126k)
Remarks made in a panel discussion on Alan Greenspan's speech
on Risk and Uncertainty in Monetary Policy, given at the American
Economic Association Annual Meeting in San Diego on 4 January
2004
East Midlands Development Agency/Bank of England Dinner
(86k)
In Leicester on 14 October 2003
The Inflation Target Ten Years On
(111k)
To the London School of Economics on Tuesday 19 November 2002
The Monetary Policy Committee Five Years On (49k)
To the Society of Business Economists at the Royal College of
Pathologists, London on Wednesday 22 May 2002
Monetary Policy in the UK: Challenges Ahead (78k)
To the British Chambers of Commerce National Conference, Queen
Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, 23 April 2002
Three Questions
and a Forecast
To the annual dinner of the CBI North East Region in Newcastle
upon Tyne on Thursday 22 November 2001
The International
Financial System: A New Partnership
to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Indian Council for
Research on International Economic Relations, New Dehli, India,
9 August 2001
"Hanes Dwy
Ddinas" or "A Tale of Two Cities"
to the Cardiff Business School, 18 June 2001
No Country
is an Island
to the Institute of Petroleum Annual Dinner at The Grovesnor
House Hotel, London (21 February 2001)
Balancing
the Economic See-Saw
by Mervyn King, Deputy Governor, to the Plymouth Chamber of
Commerce and Industry 187th Anniversary Banquet, 14 April 2000
Monetary
Policy and Manufacturing Industry
by Deputy Governor, Mervyn King, to the Black Country Consortuim
at Molineux, Wolverhampton, 29 March 2000
Monetary
Policy: Theory in Practice
Address by Deputy Governor, Mervyn King, to the joint luncheon
of the American Economic Association and the American Finance
Association, Boston Marriott Hotel, 7 January 2000
"Interest
Rates and the UK Economy - A Policy for all Seasons"
by Deputy Governor, Mervyn King speaking to the Scottish Council
Development and Industy, Edinburgh, 11 October 1999.
"Reforming the International Financial System: The Middle Way"
(43k)
by Deputy Governor, Mervyn King delivered to a session of the
Money Marketeers at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 9
September 1999
"Challenges
for Monetary Policy: New and Old"
(170k)
by Deputy Governor , Mervyn King prepared for the Symposium
on “New Challenges for Monetary Policy” sponsored
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City at Jackson Hole,
Wyoming, 27 August 1999.
The Monetary Policy Committee Two Years On (54k)
Speech by the Mervyn King, Deputy Governor on 17 May 1999
Monetary
Policy and the Labour Market
Speech by Mervyn King at the Employment Policy Institute's Fourth
Annual Lecture (1 December 1998)
National
Council of Building Material Producers
(21 October 1998)
The UK Economy
and Monetary Policy - Looking Ahead
Speech by Mervyn King at the Building Societies Association
Annual Conference (27 May 1998)
The Inflation Target Five years On
(108k)
Lecture delivered by Mervyn King at the LSE on 29 October 1997
Ms Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor,
Monetary Stability
July 2003 - present
The State of the Economy (164k)
To the Institute of Economic Affairs 25th Anniversary Conference
on 26 February 2008.
Current Monetary Policy Issues (32k)
To Hull & Humber Chamber of Commerce, at KC Football Stadium, Hull on 22 November 2007.
The MPC Comes of Age (47k)
At the De Montfort University, Leicester on 28 February 2007.
Perspectives on Current Monetary Policy (42k)
To the Cardiff Business Club on 27 November 2006.
International Monetary Stability –
Can The IMF Make a Difference?
(51k)
At
the Gam Gilbert De Botton Award Lecture on 1 November 2006.
Remarks
at a Chatham House Conference on Global Financial Imbalances
(76k)
in London on 24 January 2006
Accompanying
PowerPoint Slides 
(100k)
UK
Monetary Policy: The International Context (81k)
Speech at the APCIMS Annual Conference on 17 October 2005
Accompanying
PowerPoint Slides
(542k)
Inflation Targeting In Practice: Models, Forecasts and Hunches
(190k)
Speech to the 59th International Atlantic Economic Conference in London
on 12 March 2005
Why Monetary Stability Matters to Merseyside (84k)
Speech at the launch of the Merseyside Economic Review 2005 in Liverpool
on 24 February 2005
Stability and Statistics
(130k)
To the North Wales Business Club Dinner, Llandudno, Wales
on 23 November 2004
Keeping the Party under Control -
Anniversary Comments on Monetary Policy
(73k)
At the British Hospitality Association Annual Luncheon, in London
on 1 July 2004
Inflation Targeting - Achievement and Challenges (123k)
To the Bristol Society at the University of West England, Bristol
on 18 February 2004
Sir John Gieve, Deputy
Governor, Finanial Stability
16 January 2006 - present
Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Imbalances
(339k)
At the Sovereign Wealth Management conference in London on 14 March 2008.
The Return of the Credit Cycle: Old Lessons in New Markets
(77k)
At the Euromoney Bond Investors Congress in London on
27 February 2008.
The Impact of the Financial Market Disruption on the UK Economy
(238k)
To the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry on
17 January 2008.
Uncertainty, Policy and Financial Markets
(177k)
At a Market News event in London on 24 July 2007.
London, Money and the UK Economy
(109k)
At the University of Surrey, Guildford on 26 June 2007.
The City’s Growth: The Crest of a Wave or Swimming with the Stream
(40k)
At the Bank of England to the London Society of Chartered Accountants on 26 March.
Pricing for Perfection
(106k)
At the Bank of England to a group of market participants on 14 December 2006.
Practical Issues in Preparing for Cross-Border Financial Crises
(29k)
At the Financial Stability Forum Workshop: Planning and Communication for Financial Crises and Business Continuity Incidents, deliverd on 13 November 2006 (added to the website on 16 November 2006).
Hedge Funds and Financial Stability (62k)
At the at the HEDGE 2006 Conference on 17 October 2006.
The Puzzle of UK Business Investment (47k)
Speech at the University of the West of England on 26 September 2006.
Financial
System Risks in the UK
- Issues and Challenges (184k)
Speech at the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation
Roundtable on 25 July 2006.
Stability
and Change (123k)
Speech to the Engineering Employers' Federation North West
on 20 July 2006.
Charles Bean, Executive Director (Chief Economist) and MPC Member 1 October 2000 - present
Walking the Tightrope: Prospects for the UK Economy (181k)
To members of the Community of the Ismaili Centre on
17 April 2008.
Risk, Uncertainty and Monetary Policy (191k)
To Dow Jones at City Club in Old Broad Street on 31 October 2007.
"The Meaning of Internal Balance" Thirty Years On (172k)
At the James Meade Centenary conference on 13 July 2007.
Speech on the Economic Outlook (24k)
To a business audience at the
Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield on 21 February 2007.
"Globalisation and Inflation" (44k)
to the LSE Economics Society, London School of Economics on
24 October 2006.
Accompanying PowerPoint Slides (124k)
Jackson
Hole Symposium (99k)
Comments in response to a paper by Ken Rogoff – "Impact
of Globalization on Monetary Policy" in Wyoming, USA. in Wyoming,
USA on 26 August 2006
(86k)Commenting on a paper by Bob Hall entitled “Separating the Business Cycle from Other Economic Fluctuations” in Wyoming, USA on 26 August 2005
Monetary Policy in an Uncertain World
(128k)
Speech at the Oxonia Distinguished Speaker seminar in Oxford
on 22 February 2005
Accompanying
PowerPoint Slides
(176k)
Speech at the Colchester Town Partnership Annual Dinner in Colchester
(81k)
on 25 November 2004
Global Demographic Change: Some Implications for Central Banks
(103k)
Speech at the Overview Panel, FRB Kansas City Annual Symposium,
Jackson Hole, Wyoming on 28 August 2004
Some Current Issues in UK Monetary Policy
(114k)
Speech to the Institute of Economic Affairs, London on
28 July 2004
Asset Prices, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability: A Central
Banker's View
(145k)
Speech at the American Economic Association Annual Meeting,
San Diego on 3 January 2004
(Paper is a shortened version of that previously given in
Basel, Switzerland on 29 March 2003 and New South Wales, Australia
on 19 August 2003)
Inflation Targeting: The UK Experience
(282k)
Speech at the Annual Congress of the German Economic Association,
University Zurich-Irchel in Switzerland on 1 October 2003
Asset Prices, Financial Imbalances and Monetary Policy: Are
Inflation Targets Enough?
(313k)
Paper given in New South Wales, Australia on 19 August 2003
(Paper previously given in Basel, Switzerland on 29 March
2003)
Asset Prices, Financial Imbalances and Monetary Policy: Are
Inflation Targets Enough?
(269k)
Speech in Basel, Switzerland given on 29 March 2003
"Economists and the Real World"
(146k)
Lecture to mark the centenary of the BSc (Econ) at the London
School of Economics in London on Wednesday 29 January 2003
"The MPC and the UK Economy: Should we fear the D-words?"
(213k)
Speech to The Emmanuel Society in London on Monday 25 November
2002
Financial Frictions and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism:
Theory, Evidence and Policy Implications
(341k)
Paper by Charles Bean, Jens Larsen and Kalin Nikolov to the
Monetary Transmission Network Conference at the European Central
Bank, Frankfurt on Tuesday 18 December 2001
Ms Kate Barker, MPC Member 1 June 2001 - present
Policy Dilemmas (66k)
Speech to the North Staffordshire Chamber President's Dinner on 19 February 2008
Financial Instability and UK Monetary Policy (52k)
Speech to the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
on 23 October 2007
Interest Rate Changes - Too many or too few? (110k)
At CBI North East Dinner on 20 March 2007
Speech
by Kate Barker
(137k)
At a CBI West Midlands 2006 Economic Dinner in Birmingham
on 21 March 2006
Economic
Stability and the Business Climate
(183k)
A t the Managing Directors' Club, Sheffield University
on 24 November 2005
Monetary
Policy in the UK - The Framework and Current Issues
(152k)
At the National Association of Business Economics Policy Conference
in Washington DC on 21 March 2005
The Housing Market and the Wider Economy
(146k)
At The Institute for Economic Affairs, State of the Economy
Conference in London on 24 January 2005
CBI Yorkshire and Humber Annual Dinner
(88k)
At Bradford City Football Club on 28 April 2004
UK Monetary Policy in a Changing World
(137k)
At the Teesside Business School Annual Lecture
on 20 November 2003
Adjusting to Low Inflation - Issues for Policy (196k)
Delivered at the Manchester Statistical Society Meeting in Manchester
on 18 February 2003
Monetary Policy - A Perpetual Dilemma?
(152k)
To the Charities Consortium in London on 14 October 2002
The Policy
Implications of Economic Imbalances
delivered to the Royal Bank of Scotland/Scottish Economic Society
Annual Lecture, Edinburgh on 23 October 2001
Tim Besley, MPC Member, 1 September 2006 - present
Inflation and the Global Economy (179k)
Speech given at the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce, London on 22 April 2008.
Financial Markets and Household Consumption (225k)
Speech at the Institute of Fiscal Studies in London on 18 February 2008.
Household External Finance and Consumption (243k)
Accompanying paper to the above speech
Consumption and Interest Rates (65k)
Speech to the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Economic and Social Research Council at Chartered Accountants’ Hall on 19 July 2007.
Inflation and the Service Sector
(142k)
Speech to the Cardiff Breakfast Club on 18 January 2007.
Prof. David Blanchflower, MPC Member, 1 June 2006 - present
Inflation, Expectations and Monetary Policy (167k)
Given at the Royal Society, George Street, Edinburgh
on 29 April 2008.
Macroeconomic Literacy, Numeracy and the Implications for Monetary Policy (339k)
Accompanying paper referred to in speech above.
Fear, Unemployment and Migration (75k)
Esmée Fairbairn Memorial Lecture given at Lancaster University on 30 October 2007.
Trends in European labour markets and preferences over unemployment and inflation (493k)
Given at a Dresdner Kleinwort Seminar on European Labour Markets and Implications for Inflation and Policy on 27 September 2007.
Is unemployment more costly than inflation? (706k)
Paper referred to in speech above.
Entrepreneurship in the UK (456k)
Speech at the
Max Planck Summer Institute in Berlin on 9 July 2007.
Bernard Corry Memorial Lecture by David Blanchflower: Recent Developments in the UK Economy - the Economics of Walking About (191k)
Given at the Queen Mary, University of London on 30 May 2007.
Recent Developments in the UK Labour Market (212k)
Speech at the University of Stirling on 26 February 2007.
The Impact of Recent Migration from Eastern Europe on the UK Economy (292k)
A shortened version of this paper was given as a speech at a lunch for members of the Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce on 4 January 2007.
Reflections on my first four votes on the MPC (131k)
At breakfast with contacts of the Bank's Agency in Wales on 27 September 2006.
Andrew Sentance, MPC Member, 1 October 2006 - present
Does Sterling Still Matter for Monetary Policy? (101k)
Speech to the Confederation of British Industry at Centre Point in London on 23 April 2008
How Big is the Risk of Recession? (52k)
Speech to the Devon and Cornwall Business Council in Exeter on 21 February 2008
A Tale of Two Shocks:
Global Challenges for UK Monetary Policy (86k)
Speech at the University of Warwick Alumni, London on 27 November 2007
The Global Economy and UK Inflation (76k)
Speech at an event organised by the Leeds Financial Services Initiative on 24 September 2007
UK Monetary Policy: Good for Business? (90k)
Speech to an audience hosted by Dow Jones in London on 10 July 2007
The Changing Pattern of Savings: Implications for Growth and Inflation
(79k)
Speech at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Scottish Society Economics Lecture on 15 March 2007
Inflation and the Supply Side of the UK Economy
(129k)
Speech at Bloomberg City Gate House on 16 January 2007
Paul Tucker - Executive Director and Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, 1 June 2002 - Present
Monetary Policy and the Financial System (30k)
Remarks to the Institutional Money Market Funds Association Annual Dinner on
2 April 2008
Money and Credit: Banking and the Macroeconomy
(373k)
At the Monetary Policy and the Markets Conference, London on
13 December 2007
Central Banking and Political Economy: The Example of the UK's Monetary Policy Committee
(65k)
At a conference on Inflation Targeting, Central Bank Independence and Transparency at the University of Cambridge on 15 June 2007
A Perspective on Recent Monetary and Financial System Developments
(61k)
At a Merrill Lynch conference for hedge funds on 26 April 2007
Roy Bridge Memorial Lecture by Paul Tucker: Macro, Asset Price and Financial System Uncertainties
(133k)
On 11 December 2006
Reflections
on Operating Inflation Targeting
(148k)
Paper delivered by Paul Tucker at the Graduate School of Business
of the University of Chicago on 25 May 2006
Uncertainty,
the Implementation of Monetary Policy and the Management of
Risk
(671k)
Speech by Paul Tucker to the Association of Corporate Treasurers
in Newport on 19 May 2006
Euromoney
Global Borrowers and Investors Forum
(107k)
Remarks to the session "Where are the Risks?" at The
London Hilton on 23 June 2005
Monetary
Policy, Stability and Structural Change
(188k)
Speech at the Confederation of British Industry in Guildford
on 1 March 2005
Managing The Central Bank's Balance Sheet: Where Monetary Policy
Meets Financial Stability
(395k)
Lecture to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Lombard Street
Research held in London on 28 July 2004
National Association of Pension Funds Annual Investment Conference
(156k)
at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre in Scotland
on 19 March 2004
Risk Uncertainty And Monetary Policy
(224k)
at the UK Asset and Liability Management Association in Egham,
Surrey on 29 January 2004
Credit Conditions and Monetary Policy
(229k)
at the Leeds Financial Services Initiative on 28 August 2003
Mr Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director, Financial Stability
Strengthening Regimes for Controlling Liquidity Risk:
Some Lessons from the Recent Turmoil (117k)
Speech by Nigel Jenkinson at the Euromoney Conference on Liquidity and Funding Risk Management,
at the Hyatt Regency London on 24 April 2008.
New Markets and New Demands:
Challenges for Central Banks in the Wholesale Market Infrastructure (104k)
Speech given by Nigel Jenkinson at a Bank of England/European Central Bank Conference in Frankfurt on 12 November 2007.
Developing a Framework for Stress Testing of Financial Stability Risks (104k)
Speech by Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director, Financial Stability at the ECB Conference on Stress Testing and Financial Crisis Management in Frankfurt on 12 July 2007.
Promoting Financial System Resilience in Modern Global Capital Markets: Some Issues (83k)
Speech by Nigel Jenkinson, Executive Director, at the conference 'Law and Economics of Systemic Risk in Finance', University of St Gallen, Switzerland on 29 June 2007.
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 on 30 November 2006.
Mr Christopher Allsopp (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2003. Replaced by Richard Lambert)
Macroeconomic
Policy Rules in Theory and in Practice
(341k)
delivered to the Conference on 'Policy Rules-The Next Steps',
Cambridge University, Cambridge on 19 September 2002
The Future of Macroeconomic Policy in the European Union
(164k)
to the Austrian Institute of Economic Research on 23 January 2002
Economic Imbalances and UK Monetary Policy
(138k)
delivered in the Scott Policy Seminar Series of the Northern
Ireland Economic Research Centre (NIERC), 19 September 2001
Ms Marian Bell, (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 30 June 2005. Replaced by David Walton)
Communicating
Monetary Policy in Practice
(161k)
At the Manchester Business School's Vital Topics Lecture on
17 May 2005
A Matter of No Small Interest:
Real Short-term Interest Rates and Inflation since the 1990s
(52k)
To The Institute of Directors and Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce
at Cranfield University on 2 March 2005
Monetary Policy, Data Uncertainty and the Supply-Side: Living
With the Statistical Fog
(185k)
To the Society of Business Economists at the Chartered Institute
of Public Finance and Accountancy in London on 15 September
2004
Six Months on the MPC: A Reflection on Monetary Policy
(122k)
To the CBI South East in Crawley, Sussex on 9 December 2002
Sir Alan Budd (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 1999. Replaced by Dr Sushil Wadhwani)
Economic policy, with and without forecasts (29k)
At the Sir Alec Cairncross Lecture on 27 October
Willem Buiter (Ceased to be a member
of the MPC wef 31 May 2000. Replaced by Professor Stephen Nickell)
Further speeches and articles can be found at Willem Buiter's
own website
Alice
in Euroland
(37k)
Southbank University in London, 15 December 1998
UDROP
(71k)
At the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, 5 November
1999
Alastair Clark, Adviser to the Governor (retired on 5 April 2007)
(Executive Director, 1 March 1997 - 30 September 2003)
Analytical Models of Financial Stability (43k)
Accompanying Slides (223k)
Speech by Alastair Clark at the Cass Business School on
28 March 2007.
Prudential regulation, risk management and systemic stability
(42k)
at the China International Banking Convention Beijing, China on 20 October 2006.
"Contingency Planning and Systemic Stability" (22k)
at the Association of Corporate Treasurers in Birmingham on 16
April 2002 (added to the site on 18 April 2002)
The Role of Regulation in Global Financial Markets (51k)
given at a conference organised by the City University Business
School, 13 July 2000
Accounting
Standards and International Financial Markets
at the Annual Dinner of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
in Banking, Dublin, 3 May 2000
Banking Supervision
and Financial Stability from an International Perspective
at the FBSA Annual Conference 2001 in London on Thursday 29 November
2001
David Clementi (Ceased to be Deputy Governor wef 31 August 2002. Replaced by Sir Andrew Large)
"Property
and the Economy"
At the Chartered Surveyors' Livery Company International Dinner,
Goldsmith's Hall in London on Monday 29 April 2002
A Bank for
all Regions: Promoting Monetary and Financial Stability in the
United Kingdom
At The Ulster Society of Chartered Accountants in Belfast on 14
March 2002
"The Bank
of England's Role in Monetary and Financial Stability"
At the APCIMS National Conference in London, 19 October 2001
"Maintaining
Financial Stability in a Rapidly Changing World: Some Threats
and Opportunities"
At the launch of the Oxford Centre for Computational Finance,
University of Oxford, 10 October 2001
"Debt Workouts
for Corporates, Banks and Countries: Some Common Themes"
At the INSOL International Sixth World Congress, Hilton Metropole
Hotel in London on 19 July 2001
Banks and
Systemic Risk - Theory and Evidence
At a Bank of England Conference on 23 May 2001
Recent Developments
in Financial Markets: Some Implications for Financial Stability
at the Banca d'Italia Conference: International Banking and Financial
Systems: Evolution and Stability (9 March 2001)
Recent Developments
in Securities Markets and the Implications for Financial Stability
to the Euromoney International Bond Congress at the Queen Elizabeth
II Conference Centre in London (21 February 2001)
The City and
the Euro: innovation and excellence
to a City Seminar on 'London into the 21st Century' at the Palace
Hotel in Tokyo, Japan (13 February 2001)
Current Threats
to Global Financial Stability - a European View
to the British-American Chamber of Commerce at the New York Palace
Hotel, New York (22 January 2001)
The Bank of
England - A Central Bank Post-Independence
at the Annual Leonard Sainer Lecture, Stationers Hall (14 November
2000)
Crisis Prevention
and Resolution - two aspects of Financial Stability
at the South Bank University Centre for Monetary and Financial
Economics (6 September 2000)
Technological
Innovation and E-Commerce: the Implications for Derivatives Markets
at the opening reception of International Derivatives Week (19
June 2000)
ICAEW Conference
at the Chartered Accountants Hall (9 May 2000)
Cardiff Business
Club Dinner
Cardiff Business Club Dinner, Cardiff, 28 February 2000
The Basel Accord:
Systemic Issues
at an FSA Conference in London (2 December 1999)
FTSE International
European Shareholder Value Awards
Speech by David Clementi, Deputy Governor (17 June 1999)
Role of the
Bank and London in the Millennium
FT World Gold Conference (14 June 1999)
UK Financial Services following the Launch of of the Euro
(29k)
Economist Conferences (23 April 1999)
London ready for the Euro
various venues and dates in 1998
Futures and
Options Association International Derivatives Week Conference
(June 1997)
Edward George (Ceased to be Governor wef 30 June 2003. Replaced by Mervyn King)
Mansion House Speech
(76k)
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)
In London on Monday 27 March 2003
Finance and Leasing Association Annual Dinner (79k)
In London on Monday 24 March 2003
Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland Biennial Dinner
(76k)
In Glasgow on Monday 20 January 2003
16th European Finance Convention
(71k)
In London on Friday 6 December 2002
Association
of Corporate Treasurers Annual Dinner
(77k)
In London on Wednesday 13 November 2002
Northwest Development Agency/Bank of England Dinner
(82k)
In Manchester on Tuesday 15 October 2002
West Midlands Conference "20-20 Vision"
(20k)
In Birmingham on Friday 20 September 2002
Mansion House Speech
(65k)
At the Lord Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City
of London, Mansion House on 26 June 2002
The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce (RSA)
(23k)
In Birmingham on Thursday 11 April 2002
Asian Business Association Dinner
(16k)
In London on 19 March 2002
Euromoney Bond Investors' Congress
(14k)
At the Euromoney Bond Investors' Congress in London on 19 February
2002
EEF Biennial Dinner
(16k)
At the EEF Biennial Dinner in London on 12 February 2002
Bankers Club/Guild Banquet
(9k)
At the Guildhall in London on 4 February 2002
Opportunity International UK's 10th Anniversary Reception
(11k)
At Commerzbank in London, 22 January 2002
Official Opening of the new Economics Building, Oxford University
(67k)
18 January 2002 (added to the site on 22 March 2002)
Association of Business Community Dinner
(13k)
In Scotland, 14 January 2002
Second City of London Biennial Meeting
(19k)
International Maritime Organisation, London, 12 December 2001
Welsh Development
Agency/Bank of England Dinner
Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, 16 October 2001
Centre for
Financial Studies Seminar
In Frankfurt, 13 September 2001
Mansion House
Speech
at the Lord Mayor's Dinner for Bankers and Merchants of the City
of London at Mansion House, 20 June 2001
Oesterreichische
Nationalbank Economics Conference
In Vienna on 31 May 2001
Jiji Press
London Top Seminar
at The Savoy Hotel, London on 30 May 2001
Swiss Institute
of International Studies
at The University of Zurich, 7 May 2001
2001 Institute
of Directors Convention
at The Royal Albert Hall in London on 25 April 2001
Yorkshire
Forward/Bank of England Regional Dinner
At Cutlers' Hall, Sheffield, 16 January 2001
Chartered
Institute of Bankers in Scotland Biennial Dinner
At The Exchange, Edinburgh, 15 January 2001
St Paul's
Cathedral Lecture
At St Paul's Cathedral, London, 28 November 2000
New Economy
- Same Old Problems!
At the CBI National Conference, International Convention Centre
in Birmingham, 7 November 2000
Le Parcours
De O'Euro
At the Cercle de L'Union Interalliee, Paris, 24 October 2000
Dragon Awards
Dinner
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at Dragon Awards
Dinner, Mansion House, 2 October 2000
Iran Invest
2000 Conference
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at The Iran Invest
2000 Conference, 28 September 2000
Britain and
Europe
Speech by The Rt Hon Eddie George, Governor, at The British Swiss
Chamber of Commerce Lunch, 12 September 2000
Future of Central
Banking
at the Association of Professional Bankers Sri Lanka 12th Anniversary
Convention (27 August 2000)
SEANZA Governors'
Symposium
at the Hilton Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka (26 August 2000)
Mansion House
Speech
at the Lord Mayor's Dinner for Bankers and Merchants of the City
of London at the Mansion House (15 June 2000)
Financial Stability
and the City: The Evolving Role of the Bank of England
at the London Chamber of Commerce Conference (13 June 2000)
Leeds and Bradford
Chartered Institute of Bankers and Bradford Chamber of Commerce
at the St George's Hall in Bradford (11 April 2000)
British Futures
2000
at the British Chamber of Commerce National Conference in London
(4 April 2000)
The Institute
of Chartered Accountants Dinner
at the Chartered Accountants Hall, London (28 March 2000)
The CBI Annual
Luncheon
at the Guildhall, London (25 February 2000)
The Euromoney
International Bond Congress
at the QEII Conference Centre in London (16 February 2000)
Bankers Club
Annual Banquet
at the Guildhall, London (14 February 2000)
"Lunch 2000"
to the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce & Industry and
Prince's Trust at the Culloden Hotel, Co Down, Northern Ireland
(26 January 2000)
"City Council
Dinner"
at the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (18 January 2000)
"Before the
Millennium: From the City of London"
at a City University Conference at the International Maritime
Organisation (7 December 1999)
Annual Cornwall
Lecture
at The Hall of Cornwall in Truro (19 November 1999)
Lord Mayor's
Banquet
for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at the Mansion
House (10 June 1999)
Speech by the
Governor
at a dinner hosted by Birmingham City 2000 on Tuesday 18 May 1999
Leading the
Way Towards Sustainable Economic Growth
Speech by the Governor on Friday 14 May 1999
Governor speaks at the KPMG Profitability
Seminar
1 March 1999
The Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Civic Centre
Speech by the Governor on Wednesday 24 February 1999
Chancellor's
Lecture at Hertfordshire University
Speech by the Governor on Thursday 18 February 1999
The Euromoney
International Bond Congress
Speech by the Governor on Wednesday 10 February 1999
Bankers Club
Annual Banquet
Speech by the Governor on Monday 1 February 1999
The Chartered
Institute of Bankers in Scotland
Speech by the Governor on Monday 18 January 1999
The Institute for Manufacturing
(17k)
Speech by the Governor on Tuesday 12 January 1999
Institute of
Directors Annual Dinner
Speech by the Governor at the Royal Lancaster Hotel, Hyde Park,
(19 November 1998)
Britain in
Europe
Speech by the Governor given to the Financial Forum of West Flanders
Bruges, Belgium, Wednesday 21 October 1998
TUC Congress
Speech
Speech by the Governor (15 September 1998)
Mansion House
Speech
Speech by the Governor (11 June 1998)
Foreign and
Colonial Emerging Markets Conference
Speech by the Governor (28 May1998)
Henry Ford
II Lecture
Speech by the Governor (21 April 1998)
Roy Bridge
Memorial Lecture
Speech by the Governor (1 April 1998)
Speech
by the Governor at the FT Euro-Mediterranean Capital Markets Conference
(26 March 1998)
Vital Topic
Lecture given at the Manchester Business School
(24 February 1998)
The British-American
Chamber of Commerce Lunch
(22 January 1998)
The Chemical
Industries Association: Business Outlook Conference Dinner Speech
(14 January 1998)
Prospects for
the City In or Out of EMU
Royal Institute of International Affairs Conference (24 October
1997)
The British
Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
(23 September 1997)
The Sixteenth
Mais Lecture
(24 June 1997)
Lord Mayor's
Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at
the Mansion House
(12 June 1997)
The Liverpool
and District Bankers' Institute Bi-Annual Dinner
(March 1997)
The Euromoney
International Bond Congress
(February 1997)
Professor Charles Goodhart (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2000. Replaced by Christopher Allsopp)
"Recent Developments in Central Banking: Some Special Features
of the Monetary Policy Committee and of the European System of
Central Banks"
(44k)
giving the Monnet Lecture, Dublin, 14 October 1999.
Central Bankers and Uncertainty
(194k) 29 October 1998
DeAnne Julius (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2001. Replaced by Kate Barker)
British
Chambers of Commerce National Conference
27 March 2001
Scottish Engineering
Senior Executive Group Dinner
Remarks to the Scottish Engineering Senior Executive Dinner, 24
August 2000
"New Trends in a New Economy?"
(144k)
At the Chartered Institute of Bankers Annual Prestige Lecture,
Newcastle, 15 March 2000
"Back to the Future of Low Global Inflation" (83k)
At the Max Fry Global Finance Lecture, University of Birmingham,
20 October 1999
Inflation and
Growth in the Services Industries
Delivered at the Vital Topics Lecture at the Manchester Business
School, 23 March 1999
Sir Andrew Large, (Ceased to be Deputy Governor, Financial Stability and member of the MPC wef 15 January 2006. Replaced by Sir Edward John Gieve)
“Monetary
Policy: Significant Issues of Today” (166k)
To West London Business on 1 December 2005
“Financial
Stability: Managing Liquidity Risk in a Global System”
(129k)
At the Fourteenth City of London Central Banking and Regulatory
Conference, National Liberal Club, on 28 November 2005
"A Framework for Financial Stability"
(152k)
At the International Conference on Financial System Stability
and Implications of Basel II, Swiss Hotel in Istanbul on 18
May 2005
"Financial Instrument Accounting"
(118k)
To the 13th Central Banking Conference at Painter's Hall in
London on 22 November 2004
Association of Corporate Treasurers' Annual Conference
(119k)
In Newport, Gwent on 23 March 2004
"Financial Stability Oversight, Past & Present"
(116k)
At the London School of Economics on 22 January 2004
Financial Stability: Maintaining Confidence in a Complex World
(101k)
At City of London Central Banking Conference, National Liberal
Club on 17 November 2003
Convergence in Insurance and Banking: Some Financial Stability
Issues
(83k)
In London on 12 June 2003
Basel II and Systemic Stability
(79k)
At the British Bankers' Association - Basel II/CAD 3 Conference
in London on 13 March 2003
Mr Richard Lambert, (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 23 March 2006. Replaced by Tim Besley)
Central
Bank Communications: Best Practices in Advanced Economies
(114k)
At the IMF Sponsored Regional Seminar on Central Bank Communications
in Mumbai, India on 23 January 2006
Challenging
Times for Monetary Policy
(100k)
At a meeting of the National Association of Pension Funds in
Belfast on 19 October 2005
Monetary
Policy-Making: Fact and Fiction
(119k)
At a South West Agency Dinner in Bristol on 24 May 2005
Why
Is Inflation So Low?
(139k)
To The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, Glasgow
on 25 October 2004
Boring Bankers - Should We Listen?
(130k)
At the Institute for Public Policy Research, London on 22 April
2004
Professor Stephen Nickell, (Ceased to be a member of the MPC wef 31 May 2006. Replaced by David Blanchflower)
Are
Europeans Lazy? Or Americans Crazy?
(143k)
Remarks delivered 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)
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)
25 April 2006
The
Budget of 1981 Was Over the Top
(60k)
Speech to be delivered at an Institute of Economic Affairs panel
discussion in London on 16 March 2006
Monetary
Policy, Demand and Inflation
(192k)
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 on 31 January 2006.
Comments
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)
Practical
Issues in UK Monetary Policy, 2000-2005
(269k)
Speech at the British Academy Keynes Lecture in London
20 September 2005
Comments
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
How
Much Spare Capacity is there in the UK Economy? (154k)
31 May 2005
Why
Is Inflation So Low?
(113k)
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the
London School of Economics 27 January 2005
Household Debt, House Prices and Consumption Growth
(161k)
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the
London School of Economics, at Bloomberg in London on 14 September
2004
A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure
(283k)
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)
Two Current Monetary Policy Issues
(431k)
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the
London School of Economics, at a Market News International Seminar
on 16 September 2003
"Employment and Taxes"
(254k)
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the
London School of Economics, at the Centre for Economic Studies,
Institute for Economic Research Conference in Venice on 21 July
2003
Poverty and Worklessness in Britain
(248k)
member of the Monetary Policy Committee and Professor at the
London School of Economics, at the Royal Economic Society Conference
at Warwick University (to be given on 8 April)
House Prices, Household Debt and Monetary Policy
(109k)
at a private dinner for Glasgow Agency contacts on Wednesday
11 December 2002
A Picture of European Unemployment: Success and Failure
(276k)
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
"Monetary Policy Issues: Past, Present, Future"
(88k)
at a lunch organised by Business Link and the Coventry and Warwickshire
Chamber of Commerce, Leamington Spa on 19 June 2002
Has UK Labour Market Performance Changed?
(82k)
At the Society of Business Economists, 16 May 2001
The Beveridge Curve, Unemployment and Wages in the OECD from
the 1960s to the 1990s
(264k)
At a Conference at the Bank of Portugal, 3 June 2001
The Recent Performance of the UK Labour Market (69k)
to the economics section of the British Association for the
Advancement of Science, 4 September 2001- co authored by Glenda
Quintini, Credit Suisse First Boston
Some Problems
Facing the MPC
To the Wessex Institute of Directors, 10 October 2000
Ian Plenderleith (Ceased to be an Executive Director wef 31 May 2002. Replaced by Paul Tucker)
21st Century
Markets
Speech to the 15th Annual European Finance Convention at The Conrad
International Hotel in Brussels on Thursday 29 November 2001
Monetary Policy:
Addressing the Uncertainties
Speech to the Fort William Chamber of Commerce in Scotland, 20
September 2001
The Development
of the Non-Gilt Sterling Bond Market
Speech to the Association of British Insurers, 2 April 2001
Monetary Stability
as a Foundation for Sustained Growth
Speech to the National Association of Pension Funds Investment
Conference, 14 March 2001
Current Issues
in Monetary Policy
Extract from a speech to the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, 26
July 2000
The work of
the Monetary Policy Committee
Speech to the Stafford Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 14 June
2000
Developments
in UK Financial Markets
Speech at 6th Central Banking Conference (18 November 1997)
London as Financial
Centre after EMU
Speech at a conference on the International Monetary System after
EMU, 7 November 1997
John Vickers (Ceased to be an Executive Director wef 30 September 2000. Replaced by Charles Bean)