Introduction Jagjit Chadha, Alec Crystal, Joe Pearlman, Peter Smith and Stephen Wright; 1. Prospects for UK growth in the aftermath of the financial crisis Nicholas Oulton; 2. Labor market and monetary policy reforms in the UK: a structural interpretation of the implications Francesco Zanetti; 3. Property income and the balance of payments Tomas Key, Varun Paul, Martin Weale and Tomasz Wieladek; 4. UK broad money growth in the long expansion, 1992-2007: what can it tell us about the role of money? Michael McLeay and Ryland Thomas; 5. An old fashioned banking crisis: credit growth and loan losses in the UK, 1997-2012 Alistair Milne and Justine A. Wood; 6. Household debt and spending in the United Kingdom Philip Bunn and May Rostom; 7. MPC decision making, the long expansion and the crisis: integration with the global economy, heterogeneity and network dynamics Arnab Bhattacharjee and Sean Holly; 8. Nine votes, one view and the never-ending consensus on the MPC during the great stability Richard Barwell; 9. Emerging markets and import prices during the long expansion John Lewis and Jumana Saleheen; 10. UK fiscal policy before the crisis Paul Johnson.