The Implementation of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

The ECB has updated its manual on the conduct of monetary policy. This is required reading for all visitors to this blog and is available here.

Rossa White on Irish Debt

Rossa White (Chief Economist of the NTMA) has written an article on debt and sustainability issues – it is here.

Quarterly Financial Accounts for Ireland

The Q3 2010 results in this new data initiative are now available from the Central Bank: the summary is here.

The Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks

Although Simon Johnson is mainly writing about very large banks, this article is also of domestic interest.

Michael Lewis on Ireland

The long-awaited Vanity Fair article is now published (but is not freely available online, as far as I know). Relative to the Greek and Icelandic articles, this piece is more of a straightforward account of the Irish crisis (but maybe that impression is just because Irish readers would be quite familiar with many of the anecdotes in the article).  But lots of interesting material, with a very good profile of Morgan Kelly and a striking quote from Colm McCarthy among the highlights.

A Q&A with Michael Lewis is here.

Update:  Article available in PDF here.