Since mid-December 2020, the NBP Management Board has been purchasing foreign currencies on the FX market in order to strengthen the impact of NBP’s monetary policy easing on the economy, said the President of NBP, Prof. Adam...
The standing of banks affects the real sector of the economy and the situation in the economy determines the functioning of banks. Their lending and financial plans for the next year, as well as medium-term strategies, turned out...
Poland has seen the second highest increases in residential property prices in the EU in 2020. Despite the fact that prices slowed due to the coronavirus, the average price of apartments on the secondary market in the Q2...
Financial analyst James Stack predicted a collapse in the real estate market in 2008 and announced a slowdown in real estate last year. If there is a recession, there is a significant risk to property prices, said Stack in an...
Low fertility and increasing life expectancy in most of the world's economies are causing a decline in the natural interest rate. Too restrictive monetary policy may increase the risk of the economy falling into a deflationary...
“If we were to only take into account the wishes of selected members of the Eurozone, we could act faster, but that is impossible,” says Ewald Nowotny, the Governor of the Austria’s central bank, OeNB.
It is difficult to state explicitly that the risks currently faced by the global financial system are bigger or smaller compared to the situation before the outbreak of the global financial crisis.
Changes in short-term interest rates have a significant impact on the economy, but the size of this impact is curbed by a relatively small role of credit as a source of financing for Polish enterprises.
Czech Finance Minister Alena Schillerova is rethinking her country’s finance strategy. She wants to distribute the country’s growing wealth more widely, and a slowing economy won’t stop higher social spending and...
The low fertility rate and increasing life expectancy are factors that should be taken into account in future monetary policy. We should therefore expect a decline in natural interest rates.