Central-Banks
Bank Of Japan
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(Research Paper) Revision of the Sample Design of the Tankan Using the Economic Census of Japan
September 23, 2016Research and Statistics DepartmentBank of Japan Abstract In this paper we discuss how to achieve a more efficient sample design of the Tankan (Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan), making use of the Economic Census of Japan. The Bank of Japan currently forms strata for population estimation using three bases -- industry, capital size, and the number of employees -- and extracts sample enterprises from each...
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Bank of Japan Accounts (September 20)
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Average Interest Rates by Type of Deposit
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Amendment to “Guidelines on Eligible Collateral”
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Outline of Outright Purchases of Japanese Government Bonds during September
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Amendment to “Principal Terms and Conditions for the Outright Purchase/Sale of Japanese Government Bonds”
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Change in the Maximum Amount of Each ETF to be Purchased
FRED
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Friction in oil markets
[embedded content] The graph shows the price of a barrel of oil. Two types, to be exact: The blue line shows West Texas Intermediate (WTI) quality oil at delivery in Cushing, Oklahoma, a significant pipeline hub. The red line shows oil from the North Sea, referred to as Brent Crude. The two lines are typically very close to each other, with Brent being about $3 cheaper because of its slightly different characteristics and transportation costs....
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Wages with benefits
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Shaking things up in China
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Brexit in dollars per pound
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Negative investment?
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Cargo is cloudy for planes, ships slip and trains don’t gain, but trucks are in luck and pipelines are fine
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Testing theory: marginal product and wages
Swiss National Bank News
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2016-09-22 – Speech – Thomas Jordan, Chairman of the Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank: Inaugural Karl Brunner Distinguished Lecture: Introduction of Kenneth S. Rogoff
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2016-09-22 – Research – Research TV live
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2016-09-21 – Publication – Quarterly Bulletin 3/2016
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2016-09-21 – Press release – Swiss balance of payments and international investment position: Q2 2016
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2016-09-20 – Research – Karl Brunner Lecture Series
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2016-09-19 – Press release – Important monetary policy data for the week ending 16 September 2016
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2016-09-15 – Federal bond issues – Public bonds of the Swiss Confederation according to maturity (situation at 15.09.2016)
SNB & CHF: The Swiss National Bank and Swiss Franc Blog
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Monetary policy assessment of 15 September 2016
Swiss National Bank leaves expansionary monetary policy unchanged The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is maintainingits expansionary monetary policy. Interest onsight deposits at the SNB is to remain at–0.75% and the target range for the three-month Libor is unchanged at between –1.25% and –0.25%. At the same time, the SNB will remain active in the foreign exchange market, as necessary. The negative interest rate and the SNB’swillingness to...
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SNB Monetary policy assessment September 2016 and Comments
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Seven years of inaction on SNB rates day won’t end this week
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Strong Swiss growth lessens chance SNB will act
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Negative and the War On Cash, Part 2: “Closing The Escape Routes”
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Swiss National Bank: Carl Menger Prize
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SNB Survey: 2016 Foreign Exchange Turnover
RBA
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Senior Staff Changes: Appointments and Retirement
The Governor, Philip Lowe, has today announced that Christopher Kent, currently Assistant Governor (Economic), has been appointed to the position of Assistant Governor (Financial Markets), the role previously held by Guy Debelle prior to his appointment as Deputy Governor. The Governor also announced that Michele Bullock, currently Assistant Governor (Business Services), has been appointed...
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Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision
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Appointment of the new Deputy Governor
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Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Markets
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Next Generation $5 Banknote Enters Circulation
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Payments System Board Update: August 2016 Meeting
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Statement by Glenn Stevens, Governor: Monetary Policy Decision
iMFdirect
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Enhancing Monetary Policy Flexibility Through `De-dollarization’
By Marcello Estevão and Greetje Everaert Version in Español (Spanish) Borrowing and saving in foreign currencies—so-called dollarization—seem like a rational response by citizens in some emerging market economies to financial crises and runaway inflation. But dollarization usually persists many years after the problems that triggered it are alleviated and limits the effect that central banks can have on economic activity and inflation. As a...
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No Victory Lap Yet: U.S. Wage Growth Elusive
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The Calculus of Conflict in the Middle East
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To Boost Growth: Employ More Women
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Tariffs Do More Harm Than Good at Home
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Robots, Growth & Inequality
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China’s Rebalancing Explained in 6 Charts
Impact Evaluations
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Weekly links September 23: yay for airlines x2, dig out those old audit studies, how to study better, and more…
The second edition of the book Impact Evaluation in Practice by Paul Gertler, Sebastian Martinez, Patrick Premand, Laura Rawlings and Christel Vermeersch is now available. For free online! “The updated version covers the newest techniques for evaluating programs and includes state-of-the-art implementation advice, as well as an expanded set of examples and case studies that ...
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How do you scale up an effective education intervention? Iteratively, that’s how.
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You ran a field experiment. Should you then run a regression?
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Weekly links September 16: infrastructure myths, surveying rare populations x 2, being a development mum, and more…
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To trade or not to trade elephant ivory? That’s going to be the question.
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Power Calculations for Regression Discontinuity Evaluations: Part 3
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Weekly links September 9: no to cash? Machine learning for economists, climate economics, stupid regulations unchanged and more…
ECB Press Releases
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Other decisions Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
August – September 2016 EMBARGOTRANSMISSION EMBARGO until 3:00 CET on 23 September 2016 External communication Generation €uro Students’ Award competition to continue On 28 July 2016 the Governing Council took note of the positive experience with the Generation €uro Students’ Award competition, which was launched in 2010 for a five-year trial period as a joint Eurosystem competition for secondary school students aged 16 to 19. It aims to...
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Speech Mario Draghi: Welcome address
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Interview Peter Praet: Interview with L’Opinion
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Speech Yves Mersch: Banks adapting to the new normal: Striking a balance between prudence and pragmatism
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Speech Benoît Cœuré: The Case for Rethinking International Capital Flows
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Speech Peter Praet: Remarks at the BNYM 20th anniversary dinner on the dynamics of TARGET2 balances and monetary policy implementation
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Press release ECB publishes indicative calendars for the Eurosystem’s regular tender operations and reserve maintenance periods in 2017 and 2018
Bank of Canada
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Lower-for-longer interest rates require adjustments, Governor Poloz says
Canadians need to understand the forces that have led to a prolonged period of low interest rates and make adjustments, Bank of Canada Governor Stephen S. Poloz said. In a speech to the Association des économistes québécois, the Cercle finance du Québec and CFA Québec, Governor Poloz talked about the need for companies and households to adjust to the reality of interest rates that are likely to remain at low levels for a long time. Factors...
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Living with Lower for Longer
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Slow global growth poses risks for financial stability, says Senior Deputy Governor Wilkins
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(S)low for Long and Financial Stability
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Committed to a better Canada: The Bank of Canada’s role in challenging economic times
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Bank of Canada maintains overnight rate target at 1/2 per cent
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Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity in Canada during April 2016
New York Fed
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Is There Discount Window Stigma in the United Kingdom?
Helene Lee and Asani Sarkar At the onset of the financial crisis in the summer of 2007, news that Barclays had borrowed from the Bank of England (BoE) received wide media coverage. This information triggered concerns that the BoE’s lending facility may have become stigmatized, prompting market participants to interpret borrowing from the BoE as a sign of financial weakness. If such stigma discouraged borrowing, of course, it would...
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Who Falters at Student Loan Payback Time?
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Now on Your iPhone: The Economic Research Tracker
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The Changing Role of Community-College and For-Profit-College Borrowers in the Student Loan Market
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The Changing Face of the Higher Education Market
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The Changing Higher Education Landscape
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How Do People Revise Their Inflation Expectations?
RBNZ
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Reserve Bank consults on new dashboard for banks
Release date 23 September 2016 The Reserve Bank today released a consultation document (PDF 768KB) on a proposed new ‘Dashboard’ approach to quarterly disclosure for locally incorporated banks. This proposal comes from the Bank’s Regulatory Stocktake, that was completed last year and aimed to improve the efficiency, clarity and consistency of prudential requirements for banks and non-bank deposit takers. Effective disclosure is...
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Reserve Bank to publish consultation responses
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Official Cash Rate unchanged at 2.0 percent
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RBNZ MPS, OCR, FSR dates for 2017-2018
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Reserve Bank confirms nationwide restrictions on loans to property investors
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Foreign exchange and derivative turnover survey
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Consistent approach to regulations and supervision has promoted robust banking system
Bank of International Settlement
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23Sep/The effects of a central bank’s inflation forecasts on private sector forecasts: Recent evidence from Japan
How central banks can best communicate to the market is an increasingly important topic in the central banking literature. With ever greater frequency, central banks communicate to the market through the forecasts of prices and output with the purposes of reducing uncertainty; at the same time, central banks generally rely on a publicly stated medium-term inflation target to help anchor expectations. This paper aims to document how much the...
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23Sep/Macroprudential policy
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21Sep/Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel III risk-based capital regulations – Argentina
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21Sep/Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel III LCR regulations – Argentina
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21Sep/Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel III risk-based capital regulations – Korea
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21Sep/Regulatory Consistency Assessment Programme (RCAP) – Assessment of Basel III LCR regulations – Korea
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20Sep/Intuitive and reliable estimates of the output gap from a Beveridge-Nelson filter
FT Money Supply
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Money Supply 2014-07-29 13:41:38
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ECB caught up in economists’ spat
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TLTRO: how well has the ECB targeted its loans?
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Live blog: Mario Draghi’s monthly ECB press conference
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Japan’s inflation expectations: glass half empty?
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Carney’s (old) new normal
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ECB’s Cœuré backs student calls to overhaul economics curriculum