However,
the monetary policy objective of lowering inflation seemed to have been met.
Not exact matches
One of my principal
objectives as Chairman has been to make
monetary policy at the Federal Reserve as transparent as possible.
A House of Commons committee has been asked to review what
objectives the Bank of Canada's
monetary policy should pursue.
«Nevertheless, as the economy approaches our
objectives, it makes sense to gradually reduce the level of
monetary policy support,» she said.
It finds that, despite the significant impact on domestic financial conditions of global shocks, countries retain influence to achieve domestic
objectives — specifically, through
monetary policy.
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.
But many still make
monetary policy subject to the overriding
objective of limiting the variability in the exchange rate against their major trading partners.
This discussion suggests that any adaptation of
monetary policy to financial stability
objectives is, to say the least, far from straightforward.
That means clarity about the
objectives of
monetary policy, how the Fed plans to meet those
objectives in light of the economic and financial market environment, and how it formulates its responses to unforeseen circumstances that lead to revisions to its economic forecast.
What is important for attaining the Federal Reserve's mandated
objectives is not that
monetary policy is described in terms of a formal prescriptive rule, but rather that the FOMC's intentions and strategy are well understood by the public.
An important role of the Reserve Bank is conducting
monetary policy to achieve the
objectives of the Reserve Bank Board.
The implementation of
monetary policy in Australia is market - based, with a high degree of transparency in both the operational
objective (expressed in terms of the cash rate target) and the ultimate
objective (expressed as an inflation target).
While inflation - targeting regimes share a number of similarities, most importantly the focus on an inflation rate as the
objective of
monetary policy, there are a number of differences in terms of their practical implementation.
The legislation clearly states that
monetary policy has both nominal and real
objectives, similar to the goals specified for the Federal Reserve Board.
Only as we became confident that the recovery was securely established, would I expect our
monetary policy stance to evolve to ensure that it remained appropriate to achievement of our
objective: maximum sustainable employment in the context of price stability.
As I argued in a recent speech, simple
policy rules, including the most popular versions of the Taylor Rule, understate the degree of
monetary support that may be required to achieve a given set of economic
objectives in a post-financial crisis world.
These
objectives allow the Reserve Bank Board to focus on price (currency) stability while taking account of the implications of
monetary policy for activity and, therefore, employment in the short term.
The first two
objectives lead to the third, and ultimate,
objective of
monetary policy and indeed of economic
policy as a whole.
This statement should continue to foster a better understanding, both in Australia and overseas, of the nature of the relationship between the Reserve Bank and the Government, the
objectives of
monetary policy, the mechanisms for ensuring transparency and accountability in the way
policy is conducted, and the independence of the Reserve Bank.
The ECB head said that «overall, while we can be more confident about the path of inflation, patience and persistence with regard to
monetary policy is still warranted for underlying inflation pressures to build up and inflation to converge durably towards our
objective.»
The principal medium - term
objective of
monetary policy is to control inflation, so an inflation target is thus the centrepiece of the
monetary policy framework.
Former Fed Governor Stein highlighted that Federal Reserve's
monetary policy transmission mechanism works through the «recruitment channel,» in such way that investors are «enlisted» to achieve central bank
objectives by taking higher credit risks, or to rebalance portfolio by buying longer - term bonds (thus taking on higher duration risk) to seek higher yield when faced with diminished returns from safe assets.
Since 1991, the Government and the Bank of Canada have jointly agreed that the central
objective of
monetary policy should be for the Bank of Canada to target an inflation rate of 2 percent.
Central bank independence, or
monetary policy autonomy refers to a central bank's ability to conduct
monetary policy without political interference, that
monetary policy decisions are made purely based on economic and financial conditions to achieve publicly - stated
objective (s) of a central bank.
The below chart illustrates U.S. oil production (in gold) vs. FED's balance sheet (in blue), and how overproduction from accommodative
monetary policy resulted in the sharp decline in oil prices, creating a systemic risk that was again transmitted from financial and commodity markets to the real economy (in job losses and slow growth in Texas and other oil producing states, as well as the decline in headline inflation, pushing the Federal Reserve further from the price stability
objective):
His preferred rule, however, is to minimize «the variance around an approved target path of nominal domestic final sales» — an
objective that «is probably the most that can be expected of
monetary policy» (p. 285).
Some economists concede that
monetary policy can influence both prices and output, but worry that one
objective will be pursued at the expense of the other.
Building on continued progress in improving the effectiveness of its inflation targeting framework, BOG remains committed to maintaining an appropriate
monetary policy stance to bring inflation down toward its medium - term
objective.
The strategies for achieving these broad macroeconomic
objectives include the following: • Promoting inclusive growth without compromising fiscal consolidation; • Anchoring fiscal
policy on reducing the fiscal deficit to low and sustainable levels, sufficient to reduce the overall public debt burden; • Strengthening the inflation targeting regime and pursuing complementary
monetary policy to promote
monetary discipline; and • Pursuing complementary external sector
policies to ensure exchange rate stability and favourable current account balance.
detailed outline of fiscal
policy,
monetary policy and supply side
policy with links to economic
objectives
«Most participants judged that the benefits of using
monetary policy to address threats to financial stability would typically be outweighed by the costs associated with deviations from the Committee's employment and price - stability
objectives induced by such actions; some also noted that the benefits are highly uncertain.»
«[T] he possibility was raised that
monetary policy actions or communications over the past couple of years, while inflation was below the Committee's 2 percent
objective, may have contributed to a decline in longer - run inflation expectations below a level consistent with that
objective.»
Although the Treasury's operations are helpful, to protect the independence of
monetary policy, we must take care to ensure that we can achieve our
policy objectives without reliance on the Treasury.
«The persistence of the shortfall in inflation from our
objective should be one of the considerations in setting
monetary policy.
The Court held that
objective of the stability mechanism, namely to «safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole», is «clearly distinct» from the
objective of
monetary policy, that is, to maintain «price stability».
As stated by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, the
objective of OMTs is to safeguard the
monetary policy transmission mechanism in the euro area.
This includes the
objective to preserve the singleness of the
monetary policy and to ensure proper transmission to the real economy.
(at 129) He elaborates on the
objectives of the OMT programme as
monetary policy measures, which trigger the transmission mechanism and have an impact on interest rates on government bonds of specific countries, and states that all these
objectives were, with regard to the deterioration of the sovereign debt market for several states in summer 2012 legitimate.
«-LSB-... t] he
objective pursued by [the ESM], which is to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole, that is clearly distinct from the
objective of maintaining price stability, which is the primary
objective of the Union's
monetary policy.
The Governing Council shall formulate the
monetary policy of the Union including, as appropriate, decisions relating to intermediate
monetary objectives, key interest rates and the supply of reserves in the ESCB, and shall establish the necessary guidelines for their implementation.
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These characteristics can augment
monetary policy of Pakistan in achieving its
objectives of ensuring stability of the value of rupee and fuller utilisation of the country's productive resources.