Testing for the rationality of central bank interest rate forecasts
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DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02046-y
Abstract: In this paper, we study the bias in interest rate projections of five central banks, namely the central banks of the Czech Republic, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the USA. We examine whether central bank… read more here.
Keywords: central banks; central bank; interest; rate forecasts ... See more keywords
Central banks' supervisory guidance on corporate governance and bank stability: Evidence from African countries
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ememar.2020.100694
Abstract: This paper focuses on the identification of the causal relationship between central banks' supervisory guidance and individual bank stability. We propose and test the hypothesis that this causal re ... read more here.
Keywords: banks supervisory; central banks; supervisory guidance; bank stability ... See more keywords
Should central banks communicate uncertainty in their projections?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.11.013
Abstract: Abstract This paper provides original empirical evidence on the emerging practice by central banks of communicating uncertainty in their inflation projections. We compare the effects of point and density projections in a learning-to-forecast laboratory experiment… read more here.
Keywords: central banks; uncertainty; density; inflation ... See more keywords
Banking on research: Who leads? Who follows? Who cares?
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DOI: 10.1017/s1744137425100283
Abstract: Abstract This study sheds light on the diffusion of knowledge production as an institutional norm among central, development, and investment banks. It builds on an original database of 24,435 peer-reviewed scientific items published by a… read more here.
Keywords: research leads; leads follows; research; central banks ... See more keywords
The Bank of England, operational independence and the financial crisis
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DOI: 10.1057/s41293-018-00097-x
Abstract: The Bank of England played a key role in the management of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, a decade after being granted independence, and has since become an increasingly powerful monetary and financial actor. However, most… read more here.
Keywords: financial crisis; central banks; bank england; independence ... See more keywords
Monetary Reform, Central Banks, and Digital Currencies
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DOI: 10.1080/08911916.2019.1624317
Abstract: Abstract The modern debate about monetary reform has taken on a new twist with the development of private digital currencies employing distributed ledger payments technology. In order to consider the appropriate state response, we go… read more here.
Keywords: reform central; central banks; money; digital currencies ... See more keywords
Monetary statecraft in the service of counter-revolution: Gulf monarchies’ deposits to Arab states’ central banks 1998–2022
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DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2025.2462097
Abstract: Abstract Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) monarchies have deposited several tens of billions of dollars in other Arab states’ central banks since 2011 to prop up recipients’ currencies. GCC currencies do not themselves have the ‘currency… read more here.
Keywords: statecraft; states central; arab states; central banks ... See more keywords
Quantifying central banks’ scientization: why and how to do a quantified organizational history of economics
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DOI: 10.1080/1350178x.2018.1529216
Abstract: ABSTRACT A subset of research in the history of economics is organizational history – i.e. the study of the organizations producing, circulating and applying economic ideas. This article maintains that some research questions in organizational… read more here.
Keywords: research; central banks; history economics; organizational history ... See more keywords
The geoeconomics of Central Banks Digital Currencies (CBDCs): the case of the European Central Bank (ECB)
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DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2025.2504390
Abstract: ABSTRACT Digital transformations and the expansion of digital finance have elicited intense debates on what ought to be the role of central banks as issuers of digital currencies (CBDCs). We ask why the European Central… read more here.
Keywords: digital currencies; currencies cbdcs; european central; central banks ... See more keywords
A less reluctant (green) Atlas? Explaining the People’s Bank of China’s distinctive environmental shift
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DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2025.2504391
Abstract: ABSTRACT Why did the Chinese central bank embrace environmental policies earlier than Western central banks and with a consistent focus on a wider range of environmental issues and more ambitious promotional policies? Although the greening… read more here.
Keywords: less reluctant; political economy; bank china; central banks ... See more keywords
Introduction: the new political economy of central banks: reluctant Atlases?
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DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2025.2504405
Abstract: ABSTRACT After gaining independence from political authorities, the past decades, central banks in most of the Global North and some in the Global South have taken on additional goals, acquiring unprecedented powers, many of them… read more here.
Keywords: political economy; economy; economy central; reluctant atlases ... See more keywords