Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of balance sheets and are all now possibly facing a transition to ...

Bloated central bank balance sheets have magnified the weight and the complexity of that web of relations, one in which country-specific institutional features matter.

Central banks of large advanced and many emerging market economies have recently gone through a period of extraordinary expansion of balance sheets and are all now possibly facing a transition ...

A decade and a half of quantitative easing has led to a massive expansion in central bank balance sheets. However, it is not obvious that the balance sheet had to get so big in the first place, or ...

A central bank balance sheet simply shows us both its net foreign and domestic assets against its liabilities consisting of one, monetary liabilities or reserve money consisting of currency in ...

A stylised central bank balance sheet can be helpful in clarifying the various transmission channels (Table 1). Any accumulation of assets implies an increase in corresponding liabilities.

In such an approach, the central bank keeps its balance sheet holdings big enough to leave plenty of cash in the financial system. Banks keep their extra cash on deposit at the central bank, ...

The Federal Reserve’s policy committee said Wednesday that it would slow the pace of its balance-sheet reduction next month. The Fed has been engaged in quantitative tightening, or QT, since ...

By Andrew Mulliner, CFA. In a post quantitative-easing (QE) world, central bank balance sheets in many countries have expanded to extreme levels, with little hope of their size shrinking back to ...

The era of bloated central bank balance sheets seems to be a component of the “new normal”, even if they undergo some diet in the future. By. ocanuto.