Bank of England’s monetary policy committee – assessing the importance and the implication upon monetary policy (original) (raw)
2012, Anale Seria Stiinte Economice Timisoara
The monetary policy strategies arround the world have been envolving in the last two decades considerable. In the past, central banks' have been associated with a "veil of mistery" having at their grounds the so-called policy mistique. Nowadays, the new monetary policy strategy-inflation targeting-promoted by many countries established new coordinates for monetary policy. In this paper we focuse upon the monetary policy committee with a special focus upon the Bank of England's case, because of the special track of this committee in several fields: interest rates expectations, other asset prices, the communication of the central bankers, publishing the minutes of the committees.
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