Monetary Policy (MP) is the use of operating instruments available to central banks to achieve stated objectives. Central banks (CBs) generally follow a dual mandate of price stability and ...

Contractionary monetary policy: It aims to decrease the money supply and control inflation. Raising interest rates, reducing the money supply and boosting reserve requirements can all be used to ...

ON August 30, the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago published a note explaining its use of monetary policy to keep inflation low, highlighting the shift from “direct” to “indirect” ...

So, now, the Fed’s main instrument for changing the FFR is changing the IOR rate. Still, even under this new framework, ... there will be little that monetary policy can do.

This note provides updated general guidance on the use of the Policy Coordination Instrument (PCI). The PCI is a non-financing instrument designed for countries that, at the time of the PCI request, ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) tweaked the way it uses monetary policy to steer the economy, suggesting it will more carefully weigh risks to the inflation outlook as well as the tools it uses to ...

A financial instrument is a real or virtual document representing a legal agreement that involves any kind of monetary value. Financial instruments may be divided into two types: cash and derivatives.

Their combined use as a coordinated set of policy actions can help avoid the bluntness of any single instrument and reinforce the effectiveness of each of the policy reforms.

Unlike the Western economies, the PBoC uses a broader set of monetary policy instruments to achieve its objectives. The primary tools include a seven-day Reverse Repo Rate ...

With inflation still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% objective, there is renewed interest in understanding how quickly federal funds rate hikes typically affect inflation. Beyond monetary policy’s well ...

AMMAN — The Central Bank of Jordan (CBJ) on Thursday decided to lower interest rates on all monetary policy instruments by 50 basis points, effective Sunday, 22 September 2024. The move marks the end ...