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Governing Finance for Sustainability
Washington D.C., 16 October 2019Monetary, Panel | Tags: Central Banks, Financial Regulation, Governing Finance
The nexus between financial governance, macroeconomic and financial stability, social cohesion, and environmental sustainability has become the subject of a growing debate among policymakers and market participants. Current beliefs on... continue reading
Unconventional Monetary Policy and Inequality – Is Japan Unique?
Ayako Saiki and Jon Frost | 20 September 2019Monetary, Working Papers | Tags: Inequality, Japan, Quantitative Easing
For over a decade, but especially since the start of Abenomics in 2013, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) has been increasing the monetary base rapidly by implementing an unconventional monetary... continue reading
Governing Finance for Sustainability – Advancing the Debate
8-9 July 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland | By InvitationMonetary, Roundtables | Tags: Central Banks, Financial Regulation, Governing Finance
As highlighted by Benoît Cœuré from the ECB in his keynote on “Monetary Policy and Climate Change” last November, there is an accelerating momentum to move sustainability up financial market... continue reading
Trade Policy Priorities for Financial Services
21 June 2019 | Geneva, Switzerland | By InvitationRoundtables, Trade | Tags: Financial Regulation, Services Trade
International financial service providers account for a key part of global services flows and have been a historic catalyst of services trade negotiations. Yet, countries today are reluctant to undertake... continue reading
What the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Means for Tax Expenditures
Eric Toder | 20 June 2019Blog, Fiscal | Tags: Income Tax, Inequality, Tax Expenditures
In a new paper, my former Tax Policy Center colleague Daniel Berger and I calculate that the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) modestly reduced the cost of tax... continue reading
The Low-Skill Losers
Karen Petrou | 30 April 2019Blog, Monetary | Tags: Employment, Federal Reserve, Inequality, QE
The Fed is devoting increasing analytical – if not yet policy-maker – attention to the unequalizing impact of unconventional policy. It’s a start – a major problem besetting central... continue reading