Monetary policy and government debt management during the coronavirus pandemic
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Pub. Date
16 March, 2021
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This paper describes how the large budget deficits of 2020 in the United States and the United Kingdom were financed, how central banks are in practice managed not just short-term interest rates but also yields on government bonds, and how their ability to resist a post-coronavirus surge in inflation has been compromised.
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