Tag: Inflation

Climate Change and Inflation Targeting Frameworks

14 April 2025 | 18.00 CET | Online | Co-hosted with E-axes Forum
Monetary, Webinar | Tags: Central Banks, Climate Risks, Financial Stability, Inflation
How can monetary policy adapt in a world where negative supply shocks caused by climate change as well as the introduction of carbon taxes may intensify persistent inflationary pressures?. ... continue reading

Trade and Consumer Prices: The Role of Competitive Transport, Communication, and Distribution Services

| 21 December 2021
Trade, Blog | Tags: Competition, Inflation, Services Trade, Transport
The recent spike in consumer price inflation has amply demonstrated that transport, logistics and distribution play a major role in bringing goods from producers to consumers in a timely and cost-effective manner. Conversely, when choke points in the logistics supply chain arise, prices skyrocket (Figure ... continue reading

Argentina. A Short Blanket for the Coronavirus Long Night

and | 3 April 2020
Fiscal, Monetary, Blog | Tags: Central Banks, Covid-19, Fiscal Space, Health, Inflation, Informality
The coronavirus has arrived, and Argentina has played its cards. First life, then the economy. While it is non-debatable that the consequences of the pandemic will be enormous throughout the world, the magnitude of the impact is still uncertain. Argentina is a special case on three ... continue reading

Green Money Without Inflation

| 7 March 2019
Monetary, Blog | Tags: Environment, European Central Bank, Inflation, Quantitative Easing
To what extent can the money created by the central bank be used to finance investments in the environment? This is a question that is often asked today. The green activists respond with enthusiasm that the central bank, and in particular the European Central Bank ... continue reading

Aggregate and Distributive Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies

9-10 November, 2017
Monetary, Workshops | Tags: Inequality, Inflation, Interest Rates, QE
Co-organized with the Swiss National Bank and the Study Center Gerzensee ... continue reading