Recent financial market turmoil has prompted speculation that G20 finance ministers and central bank governors will discuss the merits of closer exchange rate coordination at their gathering in...

While some recent survey evidence has hinted that loan growth in the US may be about to slow, money and credit data in the four major advanced economies as a whole so far provide little support for...

Experience since 2009 shows that the current crop of central bankers do not hesitate to change course if they think that is the right thing to do. Indeed, central banks in numerous advanced economies...

The recent problems in many emerging markets have revived fears that the world is only now entering a ‘third leg’ of the global financial crisis (GFC) – the first being the meltdown in the sub-prime...