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BoE paper offers methods for policy-making under uncertainty

Forecast-based, news-based and rules-based methods can be used together, authors say

Bank of England

Research published by the Bank of England offers several methods central banks can deploy to set monetary policy when the outlook is highly uncertain.

The “macro technical paper”, published today (October 17), forms part of the BoE’s ongoing efforts to reform its policy-making in the wake of former Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke’s review.

“Theory-based approaches to solving the monetary policy problem assume environments that are too simplified to be applied directly to the practical policy

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