Proceedings of the IFC Conference on "Central Bank Issues Regarding National and Financial Accounts", Basel, September 2004

IFC Bulletin | No 19 |

01 November 2004

| 152 pages

IFC news and events	page
Participation of the IFC in ISI Session, Sydney, 5-12 April 2005	6

Articles
A quantitative framework for macroprudential/financial soundness analysis for monitoring economic and financial vulnerability Biswa N Bhattacharyay	8

Proceedings
Keynote presentation William R White	33

Session 1
Consumer Price Indices International standards - an overview Valentina Stoevska	39
The new price index manuals Paul A Armknecht	54
The EU Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices Keith Hayes and Alexandre Makaronidis	59
Monetary policy perspectives on the accuracy of inflation measures Mark A Wynne	64

Workshop A
Inflation targeting and targets: the role of a statistical office and the move to a new target in the United Kingdom David Fenwick	73
The Mexican experience on enhancing CPI credibility Jose A Murillo and Javier Salas	81
The role of the CGPI in the process of monetary policy making in China Wang Zhenying	92
Fuzzy analysis of the Zambian Overall Weekly Inflation Maxwell Chibelushi Musongole	99

Workshop B
Banking Services Price Index: an exploratory analysis for India R B Barman and G P Samanta	110
Measuring prices from financial instruments: Yield curve modelling Per Nymand-Andersen, Mora Golding and Antonio Moreno	125
Measuring and Monitoring Property Prices in Hong Kong Kelvin Fan and Wensheng Peng	136
Monitoring property prices in the Czech Republic Petr Vojtíšek	142
Discussants' comments	146