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Ex-BoE official calls for active monetary response to gilt shocks

Clear framework needed to address government bond market volatility, Sushil Wadhwani argues

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The Bank of England should establish a clear framework that would allow monetary policy to react to movements in the bond market, a former member of its rate-setting committee has said.

Sushil Wadhwani, who was on the BoE’s monetary policy committee (MPC) from 1999 to 2002, argued on May 12 that yields in UK government bonds, or gilts, were likely to fluctuate over the next three to five years.

Speaking on a panel at the BoE watchers’ conference in London, Wadhwani noted that the yields on gilts

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