My work as an economist has made me intimately familiar with uncertainty. I use dynamic models and explore the impacts of uncertainty in a variety of settings. I use tools from statistics and decision ...

Economics is a quantitative, policy-oriented social science with a highly developed body of theory and a wide range of real-world applications. Economists seek to describe the process by which ...

Research impact is measured in different ways. However, these indicators are often based on dubious calculations, says Ludo Waltman. Policymakers try in various ways to evaluate how well researchers ...

A panel of business economists are unsure if the Federal Reserve’s purchases of short-term Treasury bills are akin to the central bank’s crisis-era policy of large-scale asset purchases in a policy ...

Central bank policy is already being tightened. The problem is that in the world after quantitative policy, central bank policy can no longer be represented by a simple interest rate line on a chart.

TOKYO, March 8 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is considering a new quantitative monetary policy framework that will show the outlook for upcoming government bond buying amounts, Jiji news agency ...

This paper reviews quantitative tools of financial stability assessments under the Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). A key focus of FSAPs is on methodologies to gauge risks on a system-wide ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan is considering a new quantitative monetary policy framework that will show the outlook for upcoming government bond buying amounts, Jiji news agency reported on ...