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 ...

The current inflation rate in the USA is 5 percent, significantly down from its June 2022 apex of 9.1 percent. Yet, given that this rate is more than two basis points higher than the Federal Reserve’s ...

Recent research has identified periods when the Federal Reserve intentionally acted to slow inflation when it exceeded desired levels. The success of these disinflation attempts reveals the extent of ...

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 ...

The forthcoming visit of the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund to The Gambia provides an important opportunity for reflection and clarification. Among many Gambians, there is ...

Shin Hyun-song, nominated as the next Bank of Korea (BOK) governor and currently serving as the Head of the Monetary and Economic Department and Chief Economist at the Bank for International ...

The crisis of the past two years has underscored the connections between monetary policy, which seeks to foster maximum employment and price stability, and regulatory policy, which works to protect ...

Context. Monetary policy has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past four years. Most central banks have quickly pivoted from aggressively easing monetary policy in 2020 to aggressively ...

While investors eagerly await lower interest rates when the FOMC meets on March 17-18, the leading monetary policy rules suggest holding steady is the right approach. Read more ...