TY - JOUR
T1 - Six Decades of Economic Research at the Bank of England
AU - Acosta, Juan
AU - Cherrier, Beatrice
AU - Claveau, François
AU - Fontan, Clément
AU - Goutsmedt, Aurélien
AU - Sergi, Francesco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 by Duke University Press.
PY - 2024/2/1
Y1 - 2024/2/1
N2 - This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960–91; 1992–2007; 2007–14). Our account relies on a broad set of sources and methods (the Bank's publications, archives, interviews with current and former Bank economists, citation analysis, prosopography, and topic modeling).
AB - This paper discusses the transformation of the content, role, and status of economic research at the Bank of England in the past sixty years. We show how three factors (the policy functions and missions of the Bank, the attitude of its executives toward economics, and its organizational structure) shaped the evolution of in-house economic research at the Bank during three distinctive periods (1960–91; 1992–2007; 2007–14). Our account relies on a broad set of sources and methods (the Bank's publications, archives, interviews with current and former Bank economists, citation analysis, prosopography, and topic modeling).
KW - Bank of England
KW - central banks
KW - history of macroeconomics
KW - monetary policy
U2 - 10.1215/00182702-10956544
DO - 10.1215/00182702-10956544
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184242467
SN - 0018-2702
VL - 56
SP - 1
EP - 40
JO - History of Political Economy
JF - History of Political Economy
IS - 1
ER -