Financial conditions affect households» and firms» decisions, so that the transmission of U.S. monetary policy to the real economy depends, to a large extent, on
how changes in monetary policy help deliver the appropriate financial market conditions to support our objectives of price stability and maximum employment.
Not exact matches
In the Doug Purvis Memorial Lecture, Governor Stephen S. Poloz shows
how changing the mix of
monetary and fiscal
policies can yield the same outcomes for growth and inflation, but lead to different results for public sector and private sector debt levels, which can impact financial stability.
Indeed,
in a classic paper written
in the early 1960s, Mundell (Mundell, 1963) showed
how,
in a world of complete asset substitutability and perfect capital mobility, real interest rates would be largely determined by international market forces with the exchange rate moving
in response to
changes in domestic
monetary policy to provide most of the desired accommodation or tightening.
Instead, what I favor is a careful elucidation of those factors that influence the economic outlook and
how monetary policy is likely to respond to
changes in the outlook.
By conducting
policy in a transparent way and communicating what is important
in determining the central bank's reaction function, I think policymakers can strike the best balance between a
monetary policy that fully incorporates the complexity of the world as it is, while, at the same time, retaining considerable clarity about
how the FOMC is likely to respond to
changing circumstances.
[5] Of course, just
how the exchange rate reacts to a
change in commodity prices will depend, among other things, on
how monetary policy is expected to respond.
In particular, it looks at how some of the most prominent changes to central banks» modus operandi have come as they sought to meet their monetary policy mandates in the exceptional circumstances seen during and after the global financial crisis of 200
In particular, it looks at
how some of the most prominent
changes to central banks» modus operandi have come as they sought to meet their
monetary policy mandates
in the exceptional circumstances seen during and after the global financial crisis of 200
in the exceptional circumstances seen during and after the global financial crisis of 2008.
From this vantage point, stability is really just a way of describing or qualifying «expectations,» which are a formal part of the way the Bank thinks about
monetary policy and the transmission mechanism (i.e.,
how a
change in the target for the overnight rate has an effect on the real economy).
I'm always dismayed, for example, by
how confidently analyts and economists talk about the relationship between
monetary policy and economic outcomes, when the fact is that the level of interest rates,
changes in interest rates, and
changes in the
monetary base provide very little additional forecasting power for GDP, over and above forecasts based on lagged
changes in GDP itself.
Will there be a
change in monetary policy and
how will that look like?
And she won't be presiding over the institution as it begins weighing potentially far - reaching
changes in how it handles
monetary policy in an era of slower growth.
UTC asked the three utilities to consider the financial viability of continuing to invest
in coal - fueled resources, to examine the
monetary costs of climate
change, and to take time to study
how they will respond to
changes in state and federal carbon
policy.