There is no doubt that press conferences over the last few years have become an important
tool for central banks to communicate their monetary decision effectively.
Second, maybe Mr. Poloz actually doesn't think that forward guidance is an effective
tool for central banks.
Not exact matches
The federal government and the
banks hold considerable sway over the housing market, of course; the
central bank's benchmark rate is a clumsy
tool for trying to moderate volatile real estate markets.
In his paper, economist Ricardo Reis put forward a new way
for the Fed to pay
banks returns on the money they keep at the
central bank, a
tool that could potentially put the Fed's goal of keeping inflation at 2 % on autopilot.
To sum up, once interest rates reach very low levels, the
central bank still has meaningful
tools that it can deploy in its pursuit of its inflation target: offering forward guidance to financial markets to enhance policy effectiveness, large - scale asset purchases, funding
for credit, and pushing short - term interest rates below zero.
Higher - than - expected inflation is also a potential risk
for emerging markets where
central banks have less sophisticated policy
tools than the Fed
for combatting higher inflation.
According to the CME's FedWatch
tool, Fed Funds futures traders are pricing in about an 85 % chance of a rate hike at the
central bank's June meeting, so the scope
for a recovery in the greenback may be limited, especially with two more NFP reports and CPI readings ahead of that meeting.
If Greece slides towards exit, even if the impact is adequately contained by the European
Central Bank's (ECB's) monetary and liquidity
tools, we could see the scope and pace of the drive
for deeper integration accelerate.
Higher - than - expected inflation is also a potential risk
for emerging markets where
central banks have less sophisticated policy
tools than the Fed
for combatting higher inflation.
Monetary Policy Experiments As investors substitute real capital assets
for currency and government bonds,
central banks find that manipulating interest rates becomes a less effective
tool for managing the economic cycle.
However, the
central bank is still hesitant on allowing cryptocurrency trading as explained by the chairman of State Duma Committee
for Financial Markets, Anatoly Aksakov, «The
central bank is against the legalization of this type of digital currency, since in this case, citizens can start actively investing in crypto -
tools, not taking into account possible risks.»
A new digital currency built
for central banks is designed to make it easier
for more people to use two powerful
tools: real - time settling and cash.