Asset purchases

1. Monetary policy - central banks.

Central bank activities under an asset purchase programme.

Closely connected with quantitative easing.

2. Other assets.

More broadly, purchases of any classes of assets in any market.

See also

• Asset Purchase Facility
• Asset purchase programme
• Balance sheet reduction policy
• Central bank
• European Central Bank
• Fiscal policy
• Inflation target
• Monetary policy
• Money supply
• POMO
• Quantitative easing
• Recession
• Unconventional monetary policy