Quantitative easing (QE) is a non-traditional monetary policy tool used by central banks, particularly when interest rates are already low and cannot be reduced further. It was popularized during the ...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business held its annual US Monetary Policy Forum, focusing on the impact of Quantitative Tightening on financial markets. The study found that the impact of ...

It's been almost two decades since the Federal Reserve, America's central bank, first used quantitative easing (QE), an unconventional monetary policy tool. As Nancy Davis, portfolio manager of the ...

This paper tests whether Japan's key macro policy multipliers have declined since 2013, the year that Japan introduced Qualitative and Quantitative Easing. We use the augmented Blanchard-Perotti ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. Over the last year, few global narratives have irked Chinese ...

On Wednesday afternoon, the Federal Reserve announced an important change in its strategy for reducing the bonds it holds on its balance sheet—a process known as quantitative tightening. Here’s a look ...

In the lead-up to Friday's Federal Reserve Board meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyo., the burning question is whether Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke will lean toward a third round of quantitative easing to ...

Plenty of traders have lost millions on ill-timed forays into bond markets. A sorry handful have even lost billions. Losing hundreds of billions, though, is the preserve of governments. In Britain the ...

UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt would have an extra £10 billion a year for tax cuts if the Bank of England stopped selling the bonds it bought over more than a decade under quantitative easing, according to ...

Trading in bonds by China’s central bank wouldn’t be a form of massive monetary easing, according to its governor, as he responded to speculation that Beijing is eyeing the unconventional policy tool ...