Midterm Exam Flashcards
BSP Primary Objective is
Maintain Price Stability conducived to a balanced and sustainable growth of economy and employment
Monetary Policy
- Manage the supply and cost of money and credit,
- influence overall demand for goods and services,
- to attain price stability
- Monetary policy - as the faucet
- BSP -as the person who controls the faucet
- Water - as the supply of money
-as the faucet
-as the person who controls the faucet
- as the supply of money
Too much money in economy supporting overall demand and services.
- BSP tightens the faucet to reduce money supply, dampens demand which could lead to lower inflation
- Contractionary
- Higher interest rates
- Less lending, borrowing
- More savings,
- Less spending
too little money in the economy, dampens overall demands for goods and services,
- BSP loosens the faucet to expand money supply
- Expansionary
- Lower interest rates
- More lending, borrowing
- Less savings
- More spending
BSP monetary policy over the years
Rehabilitation
1940
Safeguarding towards more market determined through exchange
1950
heading toward a more market determined
1960-
stabilizing the economy
1970
Navigating through turbulent
1980-
gaining policy
1990-
present- moving toward inflation
2000-
Monetary aggregate targeting
1985- 1995
- Central bank announces growth target of monetary aggregates
- Central bank determines the level of money supply
- M3/ domestic liquidity serves as the money supply, base money as the operating target
Monetary aggregate targeting
- Emphasis price stability
- Enhanced effective monetary policy complementing monetary aggregate targeting with some form of inflation targeting
Modified monetary aggregate targeting 1995-2001, q3
- Government sets inflation target
- BSP assess monetary conditions
- Inflation forecast in line with target,
If yes, no change in policy
If no BSP adjust policy settings
Inflation targeting 2002- present
is thecentral bankof thePhilippines. It
was established on July 3, 1993, pursuant to the provision of Republic Act 7653 or the New Central Bank Act of 1993 as amended by Republic Act 11211 or the New Central Bank Act of 2019.
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
BSP Complex, Roxas Boulevard ,Manila,Philippines
BSP complex
by formulating and implementing monetary policy aimed
at influencing money supply, consistent with its primary objective to maintain
price stability,
Liquidity management,