Monetary tightening
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Monetary policy.
Monetary tightening is a form of monetary policy used to cool an economy.
It is designed to have the overall effect of reducing the supply of money and thereby exerting downward pressure on inflation.
It can include interest rate rises, quantitative tightening, or both.
See also
- Asset Purchase Facility
- Asset purchase programme
- Balance sheet reduction policy
- Cash in the new post-crisis world
- Central bank
- Corporate bond
- Debase
- Easing
- Fiscal policy
- Gilts
- Hawkish
- Helicopter money
- Inflation
- Monetary easing
- Monetary policy
- Money supply
- POMO
- Quantitative easing
- Quantitative tightening
- QE2
- Real economy
- Tightening
