The discount rate is another example; it is the interest ... decisions can be either contractionary or expansionary. Contractionary monetary policy is also known as “tightening” or ...

A real-life example of expansionary monetary policy The Great Recession of 2007-2009 is a prime example of an expansionary monetary policy used to curb an economy in free fall. For most of 2007 ...

Indeed, the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy – which has been in place since the beginning of the financial crisis – has arguably put the US economy on the road to recovery. Focused on ...

One example of hawkish monetary policy happened ... Dovish (or accommodative) policy, is the opposite of hawkish and favors expansionary monetary policy to achieve maximum levels of employment.