Economics information package
The following links provide you with material for the exercises and tasks on the exercises page.
8 minute animation on the importance of price stability
Quicktime
Real Video
Windows Media
Price stability: why is it important for you? - pupils´ information leaflet, PDF format
Price stability: why is it important for you? - pupils´ information leaflet, HTML format, opens in a new window
Extended price stability guide
Opens as HTML in a new window. Summary of the European Central Bank´s teachers´ booklet: "Price stability: why is it important for you?"
What is the Bank of Finland?
- concise information in PDF format
Bank of Finland
- a link to the Bank of Finland website
The Bank of Finland's tasks
- a link to the Bank of Finland website
Presentation on the ECB, the Eurosystem and the ESCB
- leaflet from 2006, in PDF format
The European Central Bank
- a link to the ECB website
Videos: About the ECB, History, Role and tasks, Monetary policy strategy, Monetary policy instruments, Governing bodies, Independence, accountability and internal relations, Euro banknotes and coins, Still growing
Expansion of the Economic and Monetary Union and the convergence criteria - a link to the ECB website
ECB euro pages - a link to the ECB website
Security features of the Euro - a link to the ECB website
The role of the Financial System - a link to the Bank of Finland website
Financial Supervisory Authority - a link to the Financial Supervisory Authority website
Customer protection - a link to the Financial Supervisory Authority website
Bank of Finland statistics - a link to the Bank of Finland statistics pages with information on interest rates, exchange rates and the current account
Information on statistics - a link to the Statistics Finland website on statistics and information on compiling statistcs
Statistics Finland Web School - the basics of interpreting statistical graphics