Is It Time To Take Away The Carbon Punch Bowl?
Josh Ryan-Collins | 5 September 2017
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Change,
Financial Stability,
Macroprudential Regulation 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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Central Banks, Financial Stability and Inequality
Pierre Monnin | 9 March 2015
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Stability,
Inequality When you ask a central banker what her job is, she will most probably answer: “keeping inflation under control!” Indeed, securing price stability constitutes the current raison d’être of most, if not all, central banks around the world. In parallel to this objective, however, many
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What is Sustainable Monetary Policy?
17 February 2014 Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Alternative Currencies,
Commodities,
Financial Stability Colloquium on monetary policy, its impact on financial markets in general and commodity markets in particular, the role of deregulation in the financial crisis, and the potential of alternative currencies.
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