Monetary policy is increasingly evolving into a crucial tool for reducing interest payments on government debt, thus allowing fiscal stimulus to be more strategically channeled towards fostering ...

Last year, the U.S. economy grew at a faster rate than any other large, advanced economy. It looks like it will do so again this year. Crediting fiscal stimulus for the current economy misses two ...

Discover how the Bank of England shapes U.K. monetary policy, sets interest rates, and ensures financial stability, mirroring the function of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

Monetary policy refers to the actions taken by a central bank to manage the money supply and interest rates in an economy. Monetary policy refers to the actions taken by a central bank or monetary ...

Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...

This paper revisits the transmission of monetary policy by constructing a novel dataset of monetary policy shocks for an unbalanced sample of 33 advanced and emerging market economies during the ...

Discover how the monetary conditions index (MCI), which was developed by the Bank of Canada, evaluates economic conditions using interest and exchange rates.

Monetary policy is an approach taken by a central bank or government authority that is intended to influence economic growth by expanding or constraining the supply of money in that region. The vast ...

Over the years the responsibility of stabilization policy have increasingly been place on the shoulders of central banks. However, for central banks to deliver on this mandate their monetary policy ...