Norges Bank paper offers insights on when to ‘lean against the wind’

Working paper investigates use of monetary policy in mitigating financial imbalances

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When to lean against the wind? Norges Bank paper offers insight
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'Leaning against the wind' monetary policies can lead to favourable outcomes in terms of reducing the likelihood of severe crises, a working paper published by Norges Bank suggests.

Authors Karsten R. Gerdrup, Frank Hansen, Tord Krogh and Junior Maih use a New Keynesian Markov-switching model where the economy can be in a normal state or in a crisis to investigate what extent monetary policy should "actively" aim at mitigating the build-up of financial imbalances, in their paper Leaning against

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