The Paradox of Risk: Leaving the Monetary Policy Comfort Zone (Policy Analyses in International Economics)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0881327190 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 170 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Ángel Ubide is a managing director at Goldman Sachs and former senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
. Ángel Ubide is a managing director at Goldman Sachs and former senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics
He concludes that fear of another crippling crisis has caused central banks to become dangerously risk-averse and overly complacent about dampened economic growth. In the decades before the global financial crisis struck in 2007, economic policymakers kept to the primary goal of containing inflation and public deficits. He advances the provocative thesis that monetary policymakers, accustomed to a "boring" role in managing economies, must now leave their "comfort zone" and embrace risk as a necessary requirement for growth.. In this book, Ángel Ubide surveys the actions taken by central banks after the crisis and draws lessons from the unpredictable interaction of markets, countries, and financial institutions. Today, after years of sluggish economic recovery, the time has come for that prevailing consensus to give way to a new strategy of monetary stimulus to spur economic growth and encourage risk-taking by investors