EM issuers are facing more challenging economic and financial conditions as interest rates rise and
central bank monetary policy becomes less accommodative.
Not exact matches
This approach to
monetary policy was under assault after the financial crisis, as experts noted the
central banks had deluded themselves into thinking that their job had
become as simple as keeping inflation at 2 %.
Jens Weidmann, president of the German
central bank, said in a recent speech he fears that
monetary policy will
become increasingly subject to political influence.
New York Fed President William Dudley said the
central bank could still pass several rate hikes before
monetary policy started to
become tight, while Cleveland Fed President Loretta Mester said the Fed should keep raising rates to prevent the economy from overheating.
For one thing,
central banks have
become more likely to tap the brakes by raising interest rates and moving away from ultra-loose
monetary policies.
Implied volatilities gradually declined around the world in the second half of 2003, as it
became clearer that the easing cycle was drawing to a close, with some
central banks beginning to tighten
monetary policy after a prolonged period of relatively low and stable interest rates.
Zhang Xiaohui, an assistant governor at the
central bank who
became a member of its
monetary policy committee in June, added that there was «no basis for the continued depreciation of the renminbi.»
Central banks are nearing the limits of extraordinary
monetary easing, as
monetary policy is
becoming less effective in boosting growth and additional easing measures may have diminishing returns — and unintended consequences.
The idea was that politically independent
central banks would take control of
monetary policy from government treasuries that had
become the de facto
monetary policymakers during World War I and had created substantial inflation in many countries.
In terms, I think of inflation and bond markets, it took six, seven, eight, maybe 10 years of high inflation in the 1970s before you had Paul Volcker brought in to say «enough is enough,» and then again whether it's led by American
monetary policy but similar moves in Europe, obviously in the UK, a significant tightening of
monetary policy because people got fed up with inflation and I don't think that we are kind of yet at the point where real wages have been suppressed so much by that irritation that inflation is always running ahead, life is
becoming more expensive, so we need the
central bank radically to change their
policy.
The BIS acknowledges that this could have some repercussions on the conduct of
monetary policy and of its transmission mechanism (as such digital currency would
become a potentially widely - held asset and a liability on the
central bank's balance sheet).
In the wake of America's 1907 financial panic, the Aldrich - Vreeland Act of 1908 created a «National
Monetary Commission... to inquire into and report to Congress at the earliest date practicable, what changes are necessary or desirable in the
monetary system of the United States or in the laws relating to
banking and currency...» [1] The Commission's thirty - five monographs provided an exhaustive study of
central banking structures and commercial
banking policies, laying the groundwork for what in 1913
became the Federal Reserve Act.
Against this background, we think that the divergences in the
monetary policies of the major economies are likely to
become more apparent, which could increase pressure on some
central banks and magnify market volatility.
The Fed's tendency to favor Treasury and agency securities when conducting
monetary policy operations, though innocuous enough when
banks hold only minimal excess reserves so that the Fed leaves only a relatively modest «footprint» on overall credit allocation,
becomes a serious matter when
banks pile - on excess reserves, turning the Fed into the
central -
bank equivalent of the abominable snowman.
Denmark's National
bank has
become the latest
central bank to make a sudden move on
monetary policy to help steer its currency down a certain path.
The AG justifies his standpoint with statements like «the communication strategy of
central banks has
become one of the
central pillars of contemporary
monetary policy» (at 87) and he stresses that «there is no doubt that the ECB now also includes communication among its key
monetary policy tools» (at 88).