Event: Presentation of the Annual Report 2021. Organized by: Banco de España

El cambio climático y la transición a una economía baja en carbono implican al sistema financiero mediante dos vías. Primero, por su papel de canalizador de la financiación necesaria para realizar las cuantiosas inversiones que requiere el cumplimiento del Acuerdo de París. En los últimos...

In the aftermath of a major financial crisis in the 1990s, price stability has become an important argument of the future monetary policy stance in many emerging economies. As such, emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have switched to inflation targeting as their monetary policy. This...

Monetary policy has been given either too many positive attributes or, in contrast, only economy-disturbing features. Central banks must take into account a wide variety of factors to achieve a proper characterization of modern economies for the optimal implementation of monetary policy. Such is...

Monetary policy is commonly assumed to impact on commodity demand via relative prices. The bank lending channel (BLC) proposes an additional effect via the quantity of loans. This has found its way into economic textbooks, although it remains empirically controversial. I present various...

Incluye bibliografía ; Inflation-linked bond markets have experienced significant growth in recent years. This growth is somewhat surprising, for inflation-linked bonds cannot be considered a financial innovation and their development has taken place in a period of historically low global...

La visión de que los bancos centrales asuman un papel central en la preservación de la estabilidad financiera ha ganado peso tras la crisis financiera, y las políticas macroprudenciales se han convertido en un pilar fundamental para este objetivo. El marco de la política macroprudencial, sus...

Almost four years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the monetary policy stance in most advanced economies remains extraordinarily loose, with policy rates close to zero and a number of non-conventional stimuli still in place. The resulting prominence of monetary policy responds, first, to...