For students, what a textbook says is ground truth. But for nearly 15 years, leading introductory economics textbooks gave students an outdated or incomplete explanation of how the Federal Reserve ...

The IMF’s Advances in Monetary Economics (AME) Conference takes place annually in conjunction with the Camdessus Central Banking Lecture. It brings together economists from the academic and policy ...

New economic models can help policymakers better understand the effects of their inflation-taming measures Much about today’s inflation is not well understood. Why are some households seriously harmed ...

Moody’s Investor Service on Monday issued a negative outlook for global banks in 2024 as financial firms face tighter central bank monetary policies, lower economic growth and greater asset risk.

New evidence based on listings of homes for sale from 2000 to 2019 suggests house prices adjust to monetary policy changes over weeks rather than years, faster than previously thought. Housing list ...

Rent inflation has surged since early 2021. Because the cost of housing is an important component of total U.S. consumer spending, high rent inflation has contributed to elevated levels of overall ...

It is no secret that we have been fighting inflation that reached a 40-year high and the Federal Reserve Bank has embarked on a historic interest rate increase to combat inflation. Not only have they ...

Though benign inflation gives the central bank scope to lower rates, some experts say a pause is better as a cut might impact ...

Bank of America said most respondents to its global fund manager survey believe that the Federal Reserve will be able to execute a soft landing, while many participants argued that monetary policy is ...

There have been few months in monetary history as consequential as this September. Countries everywhere have tightened the screws on borrowers to smother inflation. But there has been a notable ...

We ask three questions about the connection between monetary policy and inequality. First, does monetary policy affect inequality? While different households respond to changes in monetary policy for ...

What is monetary policy in crypto? Monetary policy in crypto refers to the mechanisms used to manage the supply and circulation of cryptocurrencies. These mechanisms are intended to ensure the ...