Is It Time To Take Away The Carbon Punch Bowl?
Josh Ryan-Collins | 5 September 2017
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Climate Change,
Financial Stability,
Macroprudential Policy
Climate change poses serious financial risks. Perhaps the biggest systemic risk is a disorderly transition to a low carbon economy. As noted in the Bank of England’s ‘response to Climate Change’, current forecasts suggest that to keep global average temperatures below 2 degrees, around two-thirds of
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Monetary Policy and the Redistribution Channel
Adrien Auclert | 28 June 2017
Monetary,
Research Papers | Tags:
Income Inequality,
Inflation,
Interest Rates
This paper evaluates the role of redistribution in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to consumption. Three channels affect aggregate spending when winners and losers have different marginal propensities to consume: an earnings heterogeneity channel from unequal income gains, a Fisher channel from unexpected inflation,
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Why Monetary Policy Should Go Green
Alexander Barkawi | 19 May 2017
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Climate Change,
Collateral Frameworks,
Green Finance,
QE
Guest Post, FT Alphaville. Monetary policy is rarely a topic in debates on green finance. It should. The €60bn that the European Central Bank is currently injecting into financial markets on a monthly basis are a case in point. Its intervention amounts to nearly three
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Monetary Policy, Macroprudential Regulation and Inequality
Pierre Monnin | 12 April 2017
Monetary,
Discussion Notes | Tags:
Inequality,
Interest Rates,
Macroprudential Policy
The 2008 global financial crisis profoundly changed the role of central banks in the economy. First, central banks engaged in strong expansionary monetary policy, using new unconventional tools to boost economic activity. Second, they were key to containing financial instability, which led them to implement
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Inequality Should Matter for Central Banks
Liviu Voinea and
Pierre Monnin | 16 February 2017
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
Central Banks,
Inequality,
Quantitative Easing
Central bankers have long been discreet about the links between monetary policy and inequality. They justify this reserve by the fact that their mandates do not charge them with addressing inequality and they generally argue that by providing price stability, central banks maintain the existing
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Global Finance, Debt and Sustainability
3 October 2016, Zurich, Switzerland
Lectures,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Change,
Debt,
Financial Regulation,
Housing,
Inequality
CEP Lecture by Adair Turner co-hosted with the IMF. Lord Turner has been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking since 2013, and in 2015 became Chairman of the Institute’s Governing Body.
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Quantitative Easing Is Back – But Will It Help the Real Economy?
Josh Ryan-Collins | 15 August 2016
Monetary,
Blog | Tags:
QE
Last week the Bank of England surprised commentators with the scale of its post-Brexit monetary stimulus package. It included a new £70bn round of quantitative easing (QE), the first since 2012, as well as the more widely predicted 0.25% cut to interest rates. The idea
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