Monetary Policy, Macroprudential Regulation and Inequality
Pierre Monnin | 12 April 2017
Discussion Notes,
Monetary | Tags:
Inequality,
Interest Rates,
Macroprudential Regulation 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
Blog,
Monetary | 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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