Discover the differences, benefits, and impacts of fiscal and monetary policies on economic stability and growth.

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.

Discover how the money supply, including cash and bank deposits, shapes economic stability through regulatory policies and decisions.

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 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 ...

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 ...

In theory at least, an asset price can be separated into a component determined by underlying economic fundamentals and a nonfundamental bubble component that may reflect price speculation or ...

Central bankers are tapping nontraditional data sources for a more complete picture of the economy In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending ...