Economics

Help the Bank of England - And Win $15,000

The Bank of England is opening up to economic research from outside, under the leadership of Mark Carney

Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane.
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By Jennifer Ryan

February 26, 2015 at 11:37 AM UTC

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The Bank of England needs you. And it's running a contest with cash prizes to prove it.

Governor Mark Carney announced two competitions yesterday, as he delivered the opening remarks at a conference to introduce a big new push to open up and improve the BOE's research. The prize for each is £5,000 ($7,767).

The first will be for data visualization using the bank's newly-available data sets on a range of subjects, from household surveys to quantitative easing. The second is the first focused on a topic from the BOE research agenda. This year's theme: ``the interaction between microprudential, macroprudential and/or monetary policy.''