Events of the past decade have refocused attention on the potential contributions of monetary policy and macroprudential approaches to fostering financial stability. However, monetary policy is poorly ...

Clay Halton was a Business Editor at Investopedia and has been working in the finance publishing field for more than five years. He also writes and edits personal finance content, with a focus on ...

New IMF research assesses policies to prevent financial crises, reduce risk Countries can tailor policies to fit their needs, coordination is vital Central bank should play a key role to prevent ...

A decade has passed since the initial onset of the global financial crisis. Following a protracted period of sub-par growth, the global economy has strengthened as the effects of cyclical headwinds ...

Thank you, and good afternoon. I am extremely pleased and honored to participate in the second ESRB annual conference here in Frankfurt. Today, I would like to speak about macroprudential policy and ...

One of the key challenges in setting macroprudential policy is the difficulty involved in quantifying its principle objective, financial stability. A new paper from the Bank for International ...

Wesley Widmaier receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Perhaps the most interesting type of reform to have emerged from the global financial crisis is the call for “macroprudential” ...

Policy accommodation—and the expectation that it will persist—is distorting asset prices. Most of this distortion is deliberate and a desirable effect of the stance of policy. We have attempted to ...

ONE does not need to look back far in history to see the economic damage an asset-price bubble can wreak. However, the question of how to prevent these bubbles remains contested. The Bank for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. There is little left in officials’ monetary and fiscal armoury. But fear not. Andy Haldane, the executive ...

Good afternoon and thank you. I first want to say what a pleasure it is to be in Singapore for the first time, and how auspicious to be coming in the year of the 50 th National Day. I’m particularly ...