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Binomial models assume that there are only two possible outcomes, each time a trial is run.
''Monetary policy.''
For example, a fixed percentage jump up or jump down in a market price per short time interval.  


(QE).


A binomial tree or binomial lattice can then be built up from a series of binomial outcomes, to model market prices over longer time periods.
Quantitative easing is a form of monetary policy used to stimulate an economy where interest rates are either at, or close to, zero.  


Similar modelling can also be applied to non-financial variables.
It involves a central bank buying financial assets, and its effect is to increase the money supply.
 
 
The financial assets bought are usually central government debt.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Binary system]]
* [[Asset Purchase Facility]]
* [[Binomial distribution]]
* [[Asset purchase programme]]
* [[Binomial option pricing model]]
* [[Balance sheet reduction policy]]
* [[Binomial tree]]
* [[Cash in the new post-crisis world]]
* [[Boolean]]
* [[Central bank]]
* [[Normal frequency distribution]]
* [[Fiscal policy]]
* [[Helicopter money]]
* [[Monetary policy]]
* [[Money supply]]
* [[POMO]]
* [[QE2]]
 
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Revision as of 22:04, 24 April 2020

Monetary policy.

(QE).

Quantitative easing is a form of monetary policy used to stimulate an economy where interest rates are either at, or close to, zero.

It involves a central bank buying financial assets, and its effect is to increase the money supply.


The financial assets bought are usually central government debt.


See also