| Description | Summer 2005. Articles and speeches: 'Markets and Operations' p127; 'The impact of government spending on demand pressure.' p140; 'How important is housing market activity for durables spending?' p153; 'The inflation-targeting framework from an historical perspective.' p160; 'Monetary policy news and market reaction to the Inflation Report and MPC minutes.' p169;
Summaries of working papers: 'Learning the rules of the new game? Comparing the reactions in financial markets to announcements before and after the Bank of England's operational independence.' p179; 'Comovements in the prices of securities issued by large complex financial institutions' p180; 'The role of ICT in the global investment cycle.' p181; 'Estimating UK adjustment costs.' p182; 'Productivity growth in UK industries, 1970-2000: Structural change and the role of ICT.' p183; 'Financial constraints and capacity adjustment in the United Kingdom: Evidence from a large panel of survey data.' p184; 'Default probabilities and expected recovery: An analysis of emerging market sovereign bonds.' p185; 'The impact of unsecured debt on financial distress among British households' p186; 'The determinants of unsecured borrowing: evidence from the British Household Panel Survey.' p187; 'Liquidity risk and contagion.' p188; 'Asset pricing, asymmetric information and rating announcements: does benchmarking on ratings matter?' p189.
Reports: 'Addendum to 'Report on modelling and forecasting at the Bank of England.' p190. 'Public attitudes to inflation.' p194; 'Chief Economist Workshop April 2005: exchange rate regimes and capital flows.' p202; 'Implementing monetary policy: reforms to the Bank of England's operations in the money market.' p211; 'A review of the work of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee in 2004.' p221.
MPC speeches and papers:
'Monetary Policy: practice ahead of theory' the Mais lecture 2005: Speech by the Governor given at the Cass Business School, City University, London.'p226; 'Inflation targeting in practice: models, forecasts and hunches' Speech by Rachel Lomax, Deputy Governor, given at the 59th International Atlantic Economic Conference in London. p237; 'Monetary policy, stability and structural change' speech given by Paul Tucker given at the Confederation of British Industry in Guildford. p247; 'How much spare capacity is there in the UK economy?' speech by Stephen Nickell. p256; 'Communicating monetary policy in practice' speech by Marian Bell, A Vital Topics lecture at Manchester Business School. p266; 'Monetary policy in the United Kingdom - the framework and current issues' speech by Kate Barker given at the National Association of Business Economics Policy Conference, Washington DC, p276; 'A matter of no small interest: real short-term interest rates and inflation since the 1990s' speech given Marian Bell given to the Institute of Directors and Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce at Cranfield University. p283 |