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accommodative monetary policy

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Accommodative monetary policy
Federal Reserve System policy to increase the amount of money available to banks for lending. See: Monetary policy.

accommodative monetary policy
The Federal Reserve policy of increasing the supply of money to make credit more readily available. An accommodative monetary policy tends to lower interest rates, especially the short-term ones, at the time credit is made plentiful. Such a policy is likely to result eventually in increased inflation and interest rates. Compare monetary policy.


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The predictive power is expected to be more in the wake of an accommodative monetary policy which lowered interest rates and increased aggregate demand and output, than when inflation surges have developed due to supply-side shocks (see Borio, Kennedy and Prowse, 1994).
The accommodative monetary policy has helped to nurture recovery in the equity market and should ultimately give a boost to the property market.
In early 2003, accommodative monetary policy and stimulative fiscal policies were in place, but economic activity still seemed to be weighed down by a number of factors that had restrained the recovery earlier: Geopolitical tensions were again heightened, this time by the impending war in Iraq, businesses remained unusually cautious about the strength of the expansion, and economic activity abroad was still weak.
 
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