After the collapse of bubbles in early 1990s and persistent baking sector problems, Japan’s economy had entered into low economic growth since mid-1990s and mild deflation since late 1990s. The average rate of economic growth...
The proper diagnostic on the inflationary nature is a key in adequate calibration of the policy response – thinks Anita Angelovska-Bezohska, Governor of the National Bank of the Republic of North Macedonia.
One of the three new winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics funded by Sweden’s Riksbank, Ben Bernanke, likes challenges – his biography, and above all, his achievements, are proof of this. For this reason, when speaking...
For well over a decade, governments in the developed countries have been borrowing at very low interest rates, sometimes even at negative rates. This is going to end, and probably for a long while.
It has been several weeks since the first news of Russian troops invading the sovereign territory of Ukraine shook the world.
Cash is a safe and highly liquid instrument for payment of goods and services and other transactions which is issued by a central bank.
We have welcomed the initiation of the tightening of monetary policies early in the Fall. Determining an “optimal” timing of the decision to change the monetary policy stance is difficult - says Alfredo Cuevas, economist at...
Most often we get to hear about the dollar, the euro or the Swiss franc. The pound will get a mention now and then, and sometimes the yen. The press often reports on emerging currencies, such as the Turkish lira, the Russian...
The Ancient Greeks were right on most issues, but unfortunately they did not know the concept of acceleration, or at least they did not possess the mathematical apparatus to formally describe it. Centuries had to pass before we...
This week marks two anniversaries: the 20th anniversary of the initiation of unconventional monetary policy by the Bank of Japan and the first anniversary of the launch of quantitative easing by NBP.