Goodhart's law


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Goodhart's law

the proposition that attempts by a CENTRAL BANK to regulate the level of lending by commercial banks through the imposition of controls over certain types of lending can be circumvented by the banks, which find alternative methods of lending that are not subject to regulation.

See MONETARY POLICY, FINANCIAL INNOVATION

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