Monetary policy guides inflation and economic growth. Learn what it means, the main types, and how central banks manage interest rates and stabilize the economy.

Learn how central banks use forward guidance to shape economic expectations and guide monetary policy decisions. Explore key ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Federal Reserve has battled a variety of economic troubles over the past 35 years. Between tech busts, a financial crisis ...

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

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 ...

After the interim government kept bank lending rates high for about one and a half years to reduce inflation, Finance Adviser Salehuddin Ahmed acknowledged that tight monetary policy alone cannot cool ...

We investigate the role of government credit in monetary policy transmission, using detailed credit registry data from Brazil ...

Each economic crisis brought on loose money brings on a “solution” of...looser money. This pattern is not just a threat to ...

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

(Yicai) Jan. 7 -- The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, has reaffirmed its stance to maintain a moderately ...