The European Central Bank has warned that weakening central bank independence risks undermining price stability, as new research reviewing 50 years of global data showed that independent central banks ...

Are independent central banks better at ensuring price stability? A study of 155 central banks over 50 years shows why ...

U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as his then-Fed chair nominee Jerome Powell steps to the lectern. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Nearly every country in the world has a central bank — a public ...

The autonomy, indeed, the very existence of a central bank has been the subject of debate since the founding of the country. Alexander Hamilton, the first Sectary of the Treasury and Thomas Jefferson ...

A new report from Goldman Sachs economists examined the risks of undermining the independence of central banks to set monetary policy free of political interference. The report concluded that it can ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Federal Reserve official gave a lengthy defense of the central bank’s political independence Thursday, just days after former President Donald Trump, an outspoken Fed critic, won ...

NEW DELHI, June 15 (Reuters) - Stubbornly high inflation is putting pressure on India's central bank to raise interest rates ahead of a scheduled July review, and the finance minister is seen to be ...

Markets have been calm but concerns persist about a less independent, more divided central bank.

Nearly every country in the world has a central bank – a public institution that manages a country’s currency and its monetary policy. And these banks have an extraordinary amount of power. By ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University and Ana Carolina Garriga, University of ...