Talk:Sterilization (economics)

The ECB is now committed to using sterilization in order to allow it to buy the bonds of the southern tier member sovereigns, outright monetary transactions, without sparking inflation. Is this worthy of note in this article? --Christofurio (talk) 20:59, 12 September 2012 (UTC)

Need clarification: inflation vs. deflation
The article gives an example of the central bank wanting to decrease inflation. That is, it wants to exert a deflationary pressure.

The example goes on to say that the action (a certain amount of foreign exchange activity) will cause a decrease in local money supply which might cause monetary deflation. Preventing deflation is given as the motive for using the sterilization!

This explanation for the motivation behind the sterilization doesn't make sense to me. How could their motivation for using one tool be to apply downward pressure on a quantity, and the motivation for using the other at the same time be to apply upward pressure on the exact same variable at the exact same time?

The text needs to be checked and corrected, it seems.

Mcamp@cinci.rr.com (talk) 20:48, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Dr. Dreger's comment on this article
Dr. Dreger has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"No particular comments, but suggestions for extensions: 1. Sterilization can be only temporary for countries with current account deficits. For surplus countries, there is (in principle) no limitation 2. Central banks can try to influence exchange rates by actual intervention in foreign exchange markets or by communicating policies. But exchange rates are determined by market forces, the weight of central banks is quite low"

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 * Reference : Christian Dreger & Jurgen Wolters, 2010. "Money Demand and the Role of Monetary Indicators in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1064, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 19:54, 1 July 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Thorbecke's comment on this article
Dr. Thorbecke has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"The author might mention that, while China made a profit from sterilization, Chinese commercial bank profitability was harmed in the process."

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 * Reference : Thorbecke, Willem, 2011. "Transpacific Imbalances and Macroeconomic Codependency," ADBI Working Papers 299, Asian Development Bank Institute.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 15:16, 11 July 2016 (UTC)