Bank for International Settlements
The BIS is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of central bank governors from its member countries.
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The BIS is governed by a Board of Directors comprised of central bank governors from its member countries.
Major central banks, monetary-policy committees, and governance terms used in global finance.
Central-bank institutions, monetary policy tools, reserve systems, and international liquidity concepts used in finance.
Inflation tax, menu costs, shoe-leather costs, and other channels through which inflation affects public and private finances.
Deflation is a broad fall in the general price level that can raise real debt burdens and delay spending.
Deflation and disinflation concepts that affect real debt burdens, interest-rate floors, and recession risk.
Disinflation is a slowdown in the inflation rate while the overall price level is still rising.
Economics and FX terms for exchange-rate measures, currency regimes, pegs, floats, devaluation, monetary standards, and capital controls.
Expected inflation is the anticipated rate at which prices for goods and services will rise over a specific period.
U.S. Federal Reserve institutions, policy bodies, regional banks, accounts, notes, and balance-sheet concepts.
IMF Quotas are the capital subscriptions, or financial contributions, made by member countries to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Index-linked contracts, inflation adjustments, real returns, real yields, purchasing-power risk, and inflation-hedge concepts.
Finance-relevant inflation, price-index, purchasing-power, and nominal-versus-real value concepts.
Inflation control refers to monetary, fiscal, and regulatory actions used to slow price increases and stabilize purchasing power.
Expected inflation, unexpected inflation, inflation targeting, price stability, and central-bank inflation stance terms.
An inflation hawk is a policymaker or investor who prioritizes tighter policy to prevent inflation from becoming entrenched.
CPI, PCE, PPI, core inflation, headline inflation, cost-of-living, and other price-index measures.
Inflation targeting is a monetary-policy framework that commits a central bank to keeping inflation near a stated target.
Inflation Tax is a term used to describe the loss in the real value of money and government debt due to inflation.
Demand-pull, cost-push, imported, wage, repressed, hidden, high, and hyperinflation concepts.
The International Monetary Fund supports global monetary cooperation through surveillance, lending programs, reserve assets, and technical assistance.
IMF, BIS, SDR, quota, and reserve-tranche concepts used in international monetary finance.
Menu costs of inflation are business costs of changing posted prices, contracts, menus, systems, or communications when prices rise.
Central-bank policy rates, liquidity operations, asset purchases, communication tools, and policy-rule concepts.
A monetary union is an arrangement in which countries share a currency, central bank, or closely coordinated monetary policy.
Money, medium-of-exchange, money-demand, money-supply, and monetary-aggregate concepts used in macro-finance.
Nominal versus real values, purchasing power, real income, real wages, and inflation-adjusted value terms.
Price Stability refers to the degree to which prices for goods, services, or securities remain constant over a specified period, contributing to economic or market stability.
The portion of a member country's required quota that can be accessed without conditions, within the International Monetary Fund (IMF) framework.
Reserve ratios, statutory liquidity rules, foreign-exchange reserves, gold reserves, and bank liquidity requirements.
Shoe-leather costs of inflation are transaction costs from holding less cash and moving money more often during inflation.
Special drawing rights are IMF reserve assets based on a basket of major currencies and used in official-sector liquidity management.
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Benchmark curve showing how government-bond yields differ across maturities and what curve shape implies for fixed income and the economy.