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RBA Glossary definition for Y2K
Y2K – Year 2000. The Year 2000 problem was the possibility that financial institutions' computer systems would fail on 1 January 2000 and spark a loss of public confidence in individual institutions or at worst, in the financial system as a whole. In the event, the arrival of Y2K was virtually incident-free.
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RBA Annual Report 2000 - Financial System Stability
22 Feb 2001
Annual Report
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FINANCIAL SYSTEM STABILITY. Y2K. A first and unique test of Australia’s new. ... financial regulatory structure was the Y2K. problem. Although technical in its origins, this.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2000/pdf/fin-sys-stability.pdf
Shifting Currents in the Global Economy
2 Feb 2001
Speech
Speech by Glenn Stevens to the CEDA/Telstra Economic and Political Overview, Melbourne
https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2001/sp-ag-020201.html
10/4/2019 Lumps, Bumps and Waves | Speeches ...
4 Oct 2019
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You can see the computer and internetrevolutions in firms' spending on software investment, culminating in a peak around the dot-comboom and Y2K rectification work, which can be seen as bumps
https://www.rba.gov.au/speeches/2019/pdf/sp-so-2019-10-04.pdf
The Life of Australian Banknotes
17 Sep 2015
Bulletin
– September 2015
An assessment of the likely life of a banknote is an important input to a currency issuer's planning. Without accurate predictions of banknote life, there is the potential to incur the economic costs of producing and storing excess banknotes or,
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/sep/7.html
Liquidity, Financial Crises and the Lender of Last Resort – How Much of a Departure is the Sub-prime Crisis?
22 Oct 2008
Conferences
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RBA Conference Volume 2008
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2008/pdf/davis.pdf
The Australian Financial System in the 2000s: Dodging the Bullet
13 Dec 2011
Conferences
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RBA Conference Volume 2011
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2011/pdf/davis.pdf
Operations in Financial Markets
3 Aug 2000
RBA Annual Report
– 2000
tranche of Telstra and as they prepared for Y2K (discussed more fully below). ... The second, and less significant of the two, was the liquidity preparation for Y2K.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2000/oper-fin-mkts.html
RBA Annual Report - Glossary
28 Aug 2001
Annual Report
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RTGS Real-time gross settlement. SDRs Special drawing rights. Y2K Year 2000.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/annual-reports/rba/2001/pdf/glossary.pdf
Inflation Targeting and Japan: Why has the Bank of Japan not Adopted Inflation Targeting? | Conference – 2004
9 Aug 2004
Conferences
No additional easing was adopted between the fall of 1999 and the summer of 2000, except for liquidity injections to deal with Y2K concerns.
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2004/ito.html
A Snapshot of Inflation Targeting in its Adolescence | Conference – 2004
9 Aug 2004
Conferences
Following something of a lull, during which many macroeconomists were preoccupied by Y2K, asset-price bubbles, and the ‘new economy’, the pace of research on inflation targeting appears to have accelerated
https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/confs/2004/kuttner.html