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Transparency and communication improves the efficiency of monetary policy
(24.08.2018)
Bank of Finland Bulletin. Blog
Bank of Finland Bulletin. Blog
Inflation-targeting central banks adjust their interest rates in response to inflation. If inflation is well below target and monetary policy is credible, consumers and investors should expect interest rates to fall. If, ...
Measures of core inflation filter out temporary price changes
(03.07.2019)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 3/2019
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 3/2019
Short-lived volatility in consumer prices make it harder to monitor price pressures within the economy. Measures of core inflation describe price developments that are not driven by temporary factors.
Bank of Finland Bulletin: Bank of Finland articles on the economy 1/2019
(03.04.2019)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2019
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2019
Discussing monetary policy frameworks in Helsinki
(08.07.2019)
Bank of Finland Bulletin. Blog
Bank of Finland Bulletin. Blog
Conducting monetary policy in the current low inflation and low interest rate environment is a case apart, unlike the ‘old normal’. The Bank of Finland organized an international research conference to discuss this dilemma, ...
Editorial: Now is the time to strengthen the public finances and the foundations for productivity growth
(18.12.2018)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 5/2018
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 5/2018
Finland's economy will continue to grow, although its pace of expansion has for the time being moved past its peak. Growth is similarly expected to continue in the euro area; however, its inflationary outlook still calls ...
Growth overshadowed by hard-to-quantify risks
(12.10.2016)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
Euro area monetary policy has been eased significantly in recent years. The most important of the measures applied are the expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP), targeted longer-term refinancing operations and the ...
How well do inflation swaps reflect expected inflation?
(12.10.2016)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
Inflation swaps are financial instruments used for the purpose of hedging against future inflation. Inflation expectations extracted from inflation swaps are often used as a measure of the market’s inflation expectations, ...
Global growth remains sluggish
(12.10.2016)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 4/2016
The global economy is expected to grow by a full 3% annually in 2017–2018, i.e. only slightly faster than in 2016. World trade growth will remain slow relative to GDP growth, as in recent years. In the United States and ...
Have market inflation expectations strengthened?
(30.03.2017)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2017
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2017
Financial market inflation expectations are often measured by inflation swaps. Estimated on this basis, euro area inflation expectations have been increasing since autumn 2016. Interpretation of inflation swaps is not, ...
Euro area growth dependent on domestic demand
(21.03.2016)
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2016
Bank of Finland. Bulletin 1/2016
The Governing Council of the ECB decided on an expanded asset purchase programme (EAPP) in January 2015. Purchases have thus far been conducted to a total value of almost EUR 780 billion. At its monetary policy meeting in ...