Monetary policy in the time of Covid-19, or how uncertainty is here to stay
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Abstract
The COVID-19 crisis has compounded the uncertainty that has come to characterise the European economy. We explore how this uncertainty manifests itself in terms of European Central Bank decision-making and the long-run challenges the ECB faces. Confidence in ECB actions will come from the contingency scenarios it considers and communicates on, and from the adoption of potential policies for a wide range of such scenarios. Greater clarity around the ECB’s inflation target and surrounding tolerance bands would also be beneficial
Keywords
- monetary policy
- Central Banking
- interest rates
- uncertainty
