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- government economic policy concerning a country's rate of interest, its exchange rate, and the amount of money in the economy
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- Economy in Holding Pattern - IMF Chief
- WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The global economy is in a holding pattern and vulnerable to more upheaval, the head of the IMF said on Monday, adding a lasting recovery will depend on policymakers taking the proper steps in the coming months.Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund's managing director, said the...
- News items 2009-11-23
- Can't Print Money Forever - Tories
- By Matt FalloonLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's policy of creating new money to buy assets and boost demand is masking the true appetite for government debt and cannot go on indefinitely, the Conservatives said Tuesday.But Conservative leader David Cameron, tipped to become the next prime minister after...
- News items 2009-10-27
- Deflation is Our Biggest Worry -- Not Inflation
- Many economists are worried about high inflation over the next few years. This is based on a misdiagnosis of the current economic crisis. Although the recession officially began in December 2007, until last August the damage was mostly confined to housing and finance. In August 2008, the recession spread to...
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Fed Independence Doubts Could Hurt Recovery: Report
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - The independence of the Federal Reserve is essential for credible monetary policy and doubts about the U.S. central bank's ability to do its job without political interference could hurt the nascent economic recovery, a senior Federal Reserve official said on Sunday."Talk of eroding the Fed's independence...
- News items 2009-11-22
- OECD Sees Fed, ECB Rates on Hold Into Late 2010
- PARIS (Reuters UK) - The world's key central banks will not need to start raising policy interest rates until late 2010 due to low inflation and economic slack, and can then proceed gradually, the OECD said in a report published on Thursday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said it...
- News items 2009-11-19
- Bank Balance Sheet May Not Fall to Pre-crisis Level
- LONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's balance sheet may not fall all the way back to pre-crisis levels even when it starts selling back the assets it has bought, Monetary Policy Committee member Paul Fisher said on Thursday.In a speech that broke no new ground on the monetary...
- News items 2009-11-19
- APEC Ministers Back "market-oriented Exchange Rates"
- SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Pacific rim finance ministers agreed on Thursday to undertake monetary policies based on "market-oriented exchange rates" that reflect underlying economic fundamentals.In a statement issued after an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Singapore, the ministers also said those economies with external deficits would adopt policies to support...
- News items 2009-11-12
- QE Inflationary, Rates Could Stay Low
- By Matt FalloonLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's stimulus efforts will eventually fuel inflation but the economic outlook means interest rates could stay at record lows for at least a year, the Conservatives said on Tuesday.To combat the longest recession on record, the central bank has slashed interest...
- News items 2009-11-10
- QE Inflationary, Rates Could Stay Low - Tories
- By Matt FalloonLONDON (Reuters UK) - The Bank of England's stimulus efforts will eventually fuel inflation but the economic outlook means interest rates could stay at record lows for at least a year, the Conservatives said on Tuesday.To combat the longest recession on record, the central bank has slashed interest...
- News items 2009-11-10
- The Fed's Monetary Policy Has Veered Off Course
- Although the risk of deflation has receded in recent months, Fed policy is still too contractionary for the needs of the economy, as the money supply has not kept up with increases in money demand. Two percent inflation is the goal Both Lee Ohanian...
- Blog posts 2009-06-30
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- Communication, Decision-Making And The Optimal Degree Of Transparency Of Monetary Policy Committees
- This paper develops a theoretical model of dynamic decision-making of a monetary policy committee with heterogeneous members. It investigates the optimal transparency, and the optimal way of transmitting information of committees, by analysing the effects different communication strategies have on financial markets. It is shown that the communication strategy of...
- White papers 2008-02-11
- Fed backfire? (Monetary Policy Control Act of 1991 could drive interest rates higher) (Column)
- Federal Reserve monetary policy has always been critical to the housing industry. When the Fed decides to tighten monetary policy, or refuses to ease policy when the economy is weak, housing suffers most. On the other hand, housing benefits first whe Federal Reserve monetary policy has...
- Research articles 1992-01-01
- Probing Potential Output: Monetary Policy, Credibility, and Optimal Learning under Uncertainty
- The effective conduct of monetary policy is complicated by uncertainty about the level of potential output, and thus about the size of the monetary policy response that would be sufficient to achieve the targeted inflation rate. Monetary authorities have put significant emphasis in recent years on attaining credibility for their...
- White papers 2000-05-01
- Optimal Fiscal and Monetary Policy
- This paper provides an introduction to optimal fiscal and monetary policy using the primal approach to optimal taxation. This approach was used to address how fiscal and monetary policy should be set over the long run and over the business cycle and find four substantive lessons for policymaking: Capital income...
- White papers 1999-01-20
- Global economic integration and monetary policy - A Review of Federal Reserve Policy
- A number of key forces have forged significant changes in the environment facing monetary policymakers. This changed environment must be taken into account in selecting appropriate policy tools as well as in actually formulating and implementing monetary policy. After reviewing these changes as well as the forces bringing them about,...
- Research articles 1991-07-01
- The Transmission of Monetary Policy
- The Bank of Canada carries out monetary policy with the aim of protecting the value of Canadian money by keeping inflation low and stable. Monetary policy is implemented mainly through changes in the Target for the overnight rate which influence other interest rate and affect the level of spending and...
- White papers 2001-07-01
- Overnight Rate Innovations as a Measure of Monetary Policy Shocks in Vector Autoregressions
- The authors examine the Bank of Canada's overnight rate as a measure of monetary policy in vector autoregression VAR models. Since the time series of the Bank's current measure of the overnight rate begins only in 1971, the authors splice it to day loan rate observations to obtain a sufficiently...
- White papers 1996-03-01
- Dollarization, Monetary Policy, And The Pass-Through
- This paper explores how real dollarization dollar indexing of wages, financial dollarization dollar denomination of financial contracts, and monetary policy interact in a general equilibrium, new open-economy macroeconomics model with real shocks. Real dollarization is avoided as long as the home monetary authorities conduct monetary policy optimally maximize local welfare....
- White papers 2002-11-01
- How Does U.S. Monetary Policy Influence Economic Conditions In Emerging Markets?
- This article quantifies the economic impact of changes in U.S. monetary policy on emerging market countries. It also explores empirically how country risk, as proxied by sovereign bond spreads, is influenced by U.S. monetary policy, country-specific fundamentals. In addition, it simulates the direct effects of tightening in U.S. monetary policy...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Market Segmentation And The 'Hump-Shaped' Response Of Output To Monetary Policy Shocks
- From the executive summary: ‘After a contracting monetary policy shock, aggregate output decreases over time. The evidence seems robust to different ways of identifying monetary policy shocks. The delayed response of output to monetary policy is, also, central in the analysis by most monetary economists at central banks and academics....
- White papers 2004-09-01
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