Following the non-inflationary calm of its first decade of independence, the Bank of England has coped with the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and, more recently, the rise in inflation. It has implemented massive quantitative easing and acquired significant extra responsibilities for supervision and financial stability. It is time to review present arrangements and particularly the relationship with the Treasury.
Outlook 2023: It’s not every day that Europe gets lucky By Agnès Belaisch An unusual combination of luck and fear produced the fall in energy demand that Europe needed and the 2023 outlook for the region is more optimistic than in previous months.
ON DEMAND OMFIF outlook: what’s in store for 2023? OMFIF Economist Taylor Pearce and Chief Economist Neil Williams delve into what to look out for in the year ahead in this lightning round podcast. They cover the monetary and fiscal balance, growth, geopolitics and more.
LATEST REPORT SPI Journal, Winter 2023 This edition of the SPI journal examines the growth of carbon markets and the use of carbon-linked bonds to drive capital for renewable energy investment.
