Not exact matches
Central banks had
eased monetary policy aggressively, including taking short - term interest rates to near zero in several cases, and some were considering or implementing «
unconventional» measures to deliver additional stimulus.
As the Great Recession set in, the Fed dropped its interest rate target to close to zero, and then was forced to use
unconventional monetary policy tools including quantitative
easing.
Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world's major central banks pursued another round of
unconventional monetary easing: lower
policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative
easing (QE), and credit
easing.
One of its most controversial has been the use of so - called
unconventional monetary policy, chiefly three rounds of quantitative
easing (or QE, beautifully explained in this clip) from 2008 to 2014.
Yet this isn't the first time in the present campaign that the Conservatives themselves have trespassed on traditional Bank of Canada terrain. On July 22 Joe Oliver publicly rejected the use of quantitative
easing in Canada (the
unconventional credit - expanding strategy that has been used successfully in the US, the UK, and now Europe) despite dimming economic projections here. Decisions about the use of QE should, in theory, be the purview of the central bank. Several economists publicly questioned Oliver's statement, noting that it throws into question the Bank's future decisions on
monetary policy.
And it highlights that Japan was suffering deflation and undertaking
unconventional monetary policy, with few, if any, observers imagining that effectively - zero
policy rates and quantitative
easing would be seen across all of the major jurisdictions in the 2000s.
Central banks have been undertaking a programme, known as
unconventional monetary policy, called quantitative
easing (QE).
By December 2007, the Fed turned to
unconventional monetary policy tools, including credit
easing, quantitative
easing,
policy duration commitment, and payment of interest on reserves (see the appendix for details).
By December 2007, the Fed turned to
unconventional monetary policy tools, including credit
easing, quantitative
easing,
policy duration commitment, and payment of interest on reserves (see the appendix for details).