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Monetary policy is perhaps the most pivotal driver impacting foreign exchange (forex) because it influences the currencies in circulation. Following the Federal Reserve’s announcement of hike rates to ...

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 ...

Monetary policy might sound abstract, but you see its effect every day in rates, credit conditions, and market swings. When the central bank shifts its stance, client behavior often changes with it.

Monetary policy is one of the most important tools available to a central bank for managing an economy. In India, it is conducted by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), and every two months, the RBI’s ...

We document the state-dependence of monetary policy transmission to output and core consumer prices in a sample of eleven large inflation-targeting emerging markets along three cyclical dimensions: ...

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 ...