Contents of Periodicals published by Banks

received in June 2009

E U / European Union

European Central Bank : Monthly bulletin (May 2009)

  • Expectations and the conduct of monetary policy.
  • Five years of EU membership.
  • Credit rating agencies : developments and policy issues.

イギリス / England

Bank of England : Quarterly bulletin (v. 49, no. 2 ; 2nd quarter 2009)

  • Quantitative easing / James Benford, Stuart Berry, Kalin Nikolov, Chris Young and Mark Robson.
  • Public attitudes to inflation and monetary policy / Alina Barnett, Ozlem Oomen and Venetia Bell.
  • The economics and estimation of negative equity / Tomas Hellebrandt, Sandhya Kawar and Matt Waldron.
  • A review of the work of the London Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee in 2008.

カナダ / Canada

Bank of Canada : Bank of Canada Review (spring 2009)

  • Special issue : research on inflation targeting
    • Next steps for Canadian monetary policy / Robert Amano, Tom Carter and Don Coletti.
    • Price-level targeting and stabilization policy : a review / Steve Ambler.
    • Price-level uncertainty, price-level targeting, and nominal debt contracts / Allan Crawford, Césaire A. Meh and Yaz Terajima.
    • Unexpected inflation and redistribution of wealth in Canada / Césaire A. Meh and Yaz Terajima.

アメリカ / United States

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland : Economic commentary (Mar. 2009)

  • Replacing the dollar with special drawing rights : will it work this time? / Owen F. Humpage.

Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City : Economic review (v. 94, no. 1 ; 1st quarter 2009)

  • Has multi-market banking changed the response of small business lending to local economic shocks? / William R. Keeton.
  • Do U.S. consumers really benefit from payment card rewards? / Fumiko Hayashi.
  • Recession catches rural America / Jason Henderson and Maria Akers.
  • Developing a liquid market for inflation-indexed government securities : lessons from earlier experiences / Pu Shen.

Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond : Economic quarterly (v. 95, no. 1 ; winter 2009)

  • Problems for a fundamental theory of house prices / Andreas Hornstein.
  • Indeterminacy from inflation forecast targeting : problem or pseudo-problem? / Bennett T. McCallum.
  • Semiparametric estimation of land price gradients using large data sets / Kevin A. Bryan and Pierre-Daniel G. Sarte.
  • Consumption smoothing and the measured regressivity of consumption taxes / Kartik B. Athreya and Devin Reilly.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis : Review (v. 91, no. 2 ; Mar./Apr. 2009)

  • More money : understanding recent changes in the monetary base / William T. Gavin.
  • Foreign direct investment, productivity, and country growth : an overview / Silvio Contessi and Ariel Weinberger.
  • Quick exits of subprime mortgages / Yuliya S. Demyanyk.
  • Firm volatility and credit : a macroeconomic analysis / Leo Kaas.

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  • The impact of inflation and unemployment on subjective personal and country evaluations / Néstor Gandelman and Rubén Hernández-Murillo.
  • A journal ranking for the ambitious economist / Kristie M. Engemann and Howard J. Wall.
  • Do donors care about declining trade revenue from liberalization? : an analysis of bilateral aid allocation / Javed Younas and Subhayu Bandyopadhyay.
  • Supply shocks, demand shocks, and labor market fluctuations / Helge Braun, Reinout De Bock, and Riccardo DiCecio.

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco : Economic review (2009)

  • Regional growth and resilience : evidence from urban IT centers / Jeremy Gerst, Mark Doms, and Mary C. Daly.
  • Do supervisory rating standards change over time? / John Krainer and Jose A. Lopez.

オーストラリア / Australia

Reserve Bank of Australia : Bulletin (June 2009)

  • The impact of the capital market turbulence on banks' funding costs.
  • The Australian money market in a global crisis.
  • Economic update.
  • Australia and Canada : comparing notes on recent experiences.
  • Global monetary developments.

その他 / Other

International journal of central banking (v. 5, no. 2 ; June 2009)

  • Modeling bank senior unsecured ratings : a reasoned structured approach to bank credit assessment / Spyros Pagratis and Marco Stringa.
  • Explaining monetary policy in press conferences / Michael Ehrmann and Marcel Fratzscher.
  • The interest rate conditioning assumption / Charles Goodhart.
  • Futures contract rates as monetary policy forecasts / Giuseppe Ferrero and Andrea Nobili.
  • Firm-specific capital and welfare / Tommy Sveen and Lutz Weinke.
  • Instability and nonlinearity in the euro-area Phillips curve / Alberto Musso, Livio Stracca, and Dick van Dijk.