Zimbabwe remains committed to curbing inflation, but plans to shift the emphasis of monetary policy to place more emphasis on ...

This paper documents that households with higher marginal propensities to consume (MPCs) tend to consume goods with more flexible prices. Consequently, they face more cyclical and volatile inflation ...

We construct a new dataset of FOMC meeting transcripts from 1966 to 1990 to analyze the sources of heterogeneity in individual monetary policy preferences and study how this heterogeneity shapes ...

Even Milton Friedman—who never supported gold as money—admitted that a monetary system based on gold would “take care of ...

Real GDP to rise from about 1.5% in 2025 to around 2.25% in 2026, in part due to the effects of the government shutdown as well as from tailwinds from fiscal policy, favorable financial conditions and ...

In his December press conference, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the central bank was embarking on a "new phase" of monetary policymaking. Just what that entails will play out over the next ...

Monetary policy is the area of economic policy dealing with how much money is available in the economy and how easy it is to borrow money. Economics study the effects of monetary policy on growth, ...

Learn how accommodative monetary policy by central banks expands the money supply and stimulates economic growth through lower interest rates.

In economics, a booming economy where everyone has money to throw around isn't always a good thing. Like an engine, the economy can overheat, causing inflation; everyone has more money, but everything ...

Discover how the Bank of England shapes U.K. monetary policy, sets interest rates, and ensures financial stability, mirroring the function of the U.S. Federal Reserve.

OP-ED. Olivier Garnier, the chief economist at the Banque de France, argues in an op-ed for Le Monde that central banks have ...

China’s central bank reaffirmed its supportive monetary policy stance while signaling continued caution toward aggressive ...