| Description | Summer 2007. Vol 47 No. 2. Articles: 'Market and operations' p188; 'Public attitudes to inflation and interest rates' p208; 'National saving' p224; 'Understanding investment better: insights from recent research' p232; 'Financial globalisation, external balance sheets and economic adjustment' 244. Summaries of recent Bank of England working papers: 'The real exchange rate and quality improvements' p258; 'Comparing the pre-settlement risk implications of alternative clearing arrangements' p259; 'An affine macro-factor model of the yield curve' p260; 'Forecast combination and the Bank of England's suite of statistical forecasting models' p261; 'Housing equity as a buffer: evidence from UK householders' p262; 'Inter-industry contagion between UK life insurers and UK banks: an event study' p263.
Report: 'A review of the work of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee in 2006' p266.
Speeches: 'The MPC ten years on' by the Governor to the Society of Business Economists' p272; 'The City's growth: the crest of a wave or swimming with the stream?' by Sir John Gieve given at the Bank of England to the London Society of Chartered Accountants p286; 'The changing pattern of savings: implications for growth and inflation' by Andrew Sentance, member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Royal Bank of Scotland/Scottish Economics Society Annual Lecture p291; 'Interest rate changes - too many or too few?' by Kate Barker, member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the CBI North East Dinner p300; 'A perspective on recent monetary and financial system developments' by Paul Tucker, Executive Director and member of the Monetary Policy Committee at Merill Lynch conference p310; 'Recent developments in the UK economy: the economics of walking about' Bernard Cory Memorial Lecture by Professor David Blanchflower, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, at Queen Mary, University of London' p317. |