Zimbabwe remains committed to curbing inflation, but plans to shift the emphasis of monetary policy to place more emphasis on ...

We construct a new dataset of FOMC meeting transcripts from 1966 to 1990 to analyze the sources of heterogeneity in individual monetary policy preferences and study how this heterogeneity shapes ...

This paper documents that households with higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) tend to consume goods with more flexible prices. Consequently, they face more cyclical and volatile inflation ...

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lisa D. Cook Lisa D. Cook discusses the U.S. economic outlook and monetary policy. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics ...

近日召开的中共中央政治局会议提出，要实施好积极的财政政策和稳健的货币政策。财政政策要加力提效，继续落实落细减税降费政策。 Proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy should be well implemented, according to the meeting of the Political Bureau of the ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has its share of detractors and skeptics who say the institution doesn’t do enough or is too frequently “behind the curve,” in market parlance. Monetary Policy in Times ...

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

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Learn how accommodative monetary policy by central banks expands the money supply and stimulates economic growth through lower interest rates.

In economics, a booming economy where everyone has money to throw around isn't always a good thing. Like an engine, the economy can overheat, causing inflation; everyone has more money, but everything ...

Monetary policy is the area of economic policy dealing with how much money is available in the economy and how easy it is to borrow money. Economics study the effects of monetary policy on growth, ...

OP-ED. Olivier Garnier, the chief economist at the Banque de France, argues in an op-ed for Le Monde that central banks have ...