Two New Papers Are Latest in the ‘Roadmap for the 21st Century’ Multi-part Series ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL (December 14, 2016) – The Heartland Institute today released two new papers in a multi-part ...
Financial conditions indexes summarize a broad range of financial indicators with the goal of measuring how financial markets affect economic activity. Evidence from event studies with high-frequency ...
An IMF study finds that monetary policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works mainly through banks, with interest rate hikes raising lending costs and slowing growth, though the overall impact on inflation and ...
Surveys of professional economic forecasters and financial market data can reveal public perceptions about the future conduct of monetary policy. Current estimates suggest that both professional ...
Central banks in late 2021 kicked off the steepest and most coordinated series of interest rate hikes in four decades to contain the postpandemic inflation outbreak (see Chart 1). Many economists ...