House of Representatives Standing Committee on Financial Institutions and Public Administration
Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia annual report 1996-97: Interim
report
The Committee tabled its report
Review of the Reserve Bank of Australia
annual report 1996-97: Interim report on 23 March 1998. Copies of the
full report are available in
PDF format (121KB)
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Committee Secretariat.
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Table of contents of report
FOREWORD
MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE
TERMS OF REFERENCE
ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
- CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
Background
- Scope and conduct of the review
- CHAPTER TWO: CONDUCT OF MONETARY POLICY AND SURVEILLANCE OF THE FINANCIAL
SYSTEM
Conduct of monetary policy
- Asia and the rest of the world
- Effects of the Asia crisis on Australia
- Level of unemployment: the economic problem that remains
- Gold
- Surveillance of the financial system
- Wallis inquiry: Implications for the RBA
- Payments system
- Bank lending and bank margins
- Approach to bank supervision
- "Year 2000 problem"
Central bank cooperation
- APPENDIX 1: LIST OF SUBMISSIONS
1 Reserve Bank of Australia (Small business lending)
- APPENDIX 2: LIST OF HEARINGS AND WITNESSES ( A copy of the public
hearing transcript for the 6 November 1997 is available in PDF
format or from the Committee Secretariat)
Private Briefings
- COMMITTEE'S REVIEWS OF ANNUAL REPORTS
38th Parliament
- 37th Parliament
- LIST OF TABLES
Table 2.1: Margin over the Cash Rate
Speeches
Final report
The final report canvassed issues covered at the public hearing on 7 May
1998. The report was tabled in the House of Representatives on 22 June 1998.
An
index to the report is available on this site.
Copies of the report are available in
PDF format
or from the
Committee Secretariat.
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