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But neither that decision nor later IMF policy papers on multilateral surveillance provide specific and comparative
quantitative
indicators that would eliminate the need for case-by-case judgment.
Moreover,
quantitative
easing affects exchange rates and trade, even if central banks purchase only domestic assets, as demonstrated by recent movements in the exchange rates of the dollar, the euro, and the yen.
Some Americans view Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke as a modern-day wizard, able to revive the economy through a swish of his monetary wand – first ultra-low interest rates, then
quantitative
easing, and perhaps eventually money-printing.
The Bank of England recently injected an additional £75 billion into the economy via so-called
quantitative
easing.
In some cases, currencies move in the same direction as monetary policy – for example, when the yen dropped in response to the Bank of Japan’s 2013
quantitative
easing.
But in other cases the opposite happens, for example when the euro and the pound both strengthened after their central banks began
quantitative
easing.
With traditional monetary policy becoming less effective, non-traditional policy tools aimed at generating greater liquidity and credit (via
quantitative
easing and direct central bank purchases of private illiquid assets) will become necessary.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen insists that years of near-zero interest rates and
quantitative
easing were not intended to make it easier for the US government to fund its deficit.
In an environment dominated by direct
quantitative
controls, such as increasingly stringent lending quotas, shadow banking is meeting genuine market demand, with the interest rates that borrowers are willing to pay providing a useful price-discovery mechanism.
Moreover, it pointed out, it was merely following the example of other major central banks, including the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, and especially the US Federal Reserve, whose program of
quantitative
easing (QE) entailed the purchase of more than $2 trillion worth of long-term securities from 2008 to 2012.
Second, central banks could return to negative policy rates, as the ECB, BOJ, SNB, and some other central banks have done, in addition to
quantitative
and credit easing, in recent years.
Quantitative
Easing for the PeopleOXFORD – It is now a near certainty that, by the end of this year, falling energy and commodity prices will push annual inflation in the eurozone below zero – well under the European Central Bank’s target of near 2%.
Rather than continue to allow misguided conventional thinking, centered on German economic ideology, to impede effective action, the ECB must pursue
quantitative
easing (QE) “for the people” – an adaptation of Milton Friedman’s “helicopter drops” strategy – to reverse deflation and get the eurozone back on track.
Third, include Greece in the ECB’s program of
quantitative
easing, which would let it return to the markets.
But they can also employ a range of other unconventional tools more aggressively, from asset purchases (so-called
quantitative
easing) to negative interest rates.
The eurozone faces the specter of another round of stagnation;Japan has slipped into recession; and the United States, despite relatively strong performance in the latter part of 2014, has raised concerns worldwide with its exit from
quantitative
easing.
But the dominant policies during the post-crisis period – fiscal retrenchment and
quantitative
easing (QE) by major central banks – have offered little support to stimulate household consumption, investment, and growth.
In the US,
quantitative
easing did not boost consumption and investment partly because most of the additional liquidity returned to central banks’ coffers in the form of excess reserves.
Some characterize Trump’s efforts – and his Twitter forays, in particular – as more style than substance, unlikely to have any longer-term
quantitative
impact.
In theory, enough
quantitative
easing implies future inflation, motivating people to buy big-ticket items, like cars and appliances, now to avoid the run-up in prices later.
In other words, so-called
quantitative
easing (QE) is being replaced in the US by QT, or
quantitative
tightening.
And emerging markets (the fourth engine) are slowing sharply as decade-long global tailwinds – rapid Chinese growth, zero policy rates and
quantitative
easing by the US Federal Reserve, and a commodity super-cycle – become headwinds.
Indeed, the European Central Bank is dithering about how much to expand its balance sheet with purchases of sovereign bonds, while the Bank of Japan only now decided to increase its rate of
quantitative
easing, given evidence that this year’s consumption-tax increase is impeding growth and that next year’s planned tax increase will weaken it further.
Furthermore, the Fed has now exited
quantitative
easing and is showing a willingness to start raising policy rates sooner than markets expected.
After 25 years of stagnation, Japan is attempting to reinvigorate its economy by engaging in
quantitative
easing on an unprecedented scale.
Quantitative
easing has boosted asset values.
Even when investors accept the intellectual case for much higher bond yields, regulatory impositions on banks and pension funds, together with
quantitative
easing in Japan and Europe and other forms of financial repression, will ensure continuing demand for government bonds at prices far above any reasonable estimate of fundamental values.
Selfless SeigniorageNEW YORK – As the central banks of major developed economies have intensified
quantitative
easing (QE, or large-scale purchases of government bonds and other long-term securities), developing-country leaders have increasingly voiced concern about the policy’s adverse impact on their economies’ stability and growth.
Quantitative
easing was supposed to bring inflation “back to target.”
Given the high levels of excess capacity and unemployment in Europe and America,
quantitative
easing is unlikely to trigger a bout of inflation.
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