Tag: Central Banks

The Conservative Central Banker Returns (Daniel Gros, Project-Syndicate)

The European Central Bank and the US Federal Reserve’s new monetary-policy strategies now look like a case of adapting the general staff manual to...

Greening Asia for the long haul: What can central banks do? (Siddharth Tiwari, Brookings)

Here in Hong Kong, Category 8 typhoons used to be infrequent. Just as floods in Germany and massive wildfires in California were disasters we...

Central Banks and the Looming Financial Reckoning (Willem H. Buiter, Project-Syndicate)

Across the advanced economies, central banks have rightly prioritized maintaining financial stability and supporting the real economy over fighting inflation with interest-rate hikes. But...

Central Banks/Inequality – Are Central Banks to Blame for Rising Inequality? (Project-Syndicate)

KENNETH ROGOFF writes: Judging by the number of times phrases such as “equitable growth” and “the distributional footprint of monetary policy” appear in central...

(Central Banks) Put Central Bankers in Their Place (Project-Syndicate)

HOWARD DAVIES writes for Project-Syndicate: Current loose monetary policies in developed economies are likely to increase wealth inequality, and in the short term there...

Central Banks – Central Banking, Fast and Slow (Mohamed A. El-Erian, Project-Syndicate)

As the global economy emerges from the COVID-19 shock, systemically important central banks are faced with the unenviable task of deciding when and how...

How central banks are tackling climate change risks (WEF)

Silvia Anna Ainio - Policy Officer, European Commission Central banks have an increasingly critical role in tackling climate change policy objectives. Incorporating climate-related risks...

(Central Banks) New central banking calls for a European Credit Council (VOXEU)

Eric Monnet Since 2008, a new central banking model has emerged. Monetary authorities increasingly engage in targeted lending, hold large amounts of public debt, and...

CENTRAL BANKS/GREEN TRANSITION – Central Banking’s Green Mission (Mariana Mazzucato, Josh Ryan-Collins, Asker Voldsgaard, Project-Syndicate)

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, central banks have shown time and again that they have the power to maintain the economic status quo....