Monetary Policy (MP)

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Session No.: CE 25.04
Deadline passed
Location: Kuwait City, Kuwait
Date: January 26, 2025 - February 6, 2025 (2 weeks)
Delivery Method: In-person Training
Primary Language: English
Target Audience: Junior to mid-level officials from emerging markets and low-income countries interested in understanding and analyzing the conduct of monetary policy and its interaction with the rest of the economy.
Qualifications:
- Expected to have an advanced degree in economics or equivalent experience.
- Must be comfortable using Microsoft Excel and Excel-based applications.
- Strong recommendation to have completed a few general macroeconomic courses, such as Financial Programming and Policies (FPP) and Macroeconomic Diagnostic (MDS), face-to-face or online.

Presented by the Institute for Capacity Development.
Comprehensive overview of:
- Monetary policy regimes.
- Monetary transmission mechanisms.
- Role of monetary policy in macroeconomic stabilization.
Approach:
- Bridges theory, empirical evidence, and operational experience.
- Illustrates optimization problems and tradeoffs in monetary policy decisions.
- Learning moves from lectures introducing basic policy concepts to hands-on workshops.
- Special focus on practical policy challenges in emerging market and developing economies.
- Case studies used to reinforce understanding and compare policy responses to various shocks under different monetary policy regimes.
Contemporary topics included:
- Evolving nature of monetary frameworks and central bank mandates with attention to environmental, social and governance principles.
- Recent crises that have dramatically changed the landscape in which central banks operate (beyond simple interest rate policies, with due consideration to Unconventional Monetary Policy and central bank communication).
- Recent evolution of central bank digital currencies and its implications for monetary policy transmission and operations.

Upon completion participants should be able to:
- Analyze how monetary policy decisions are made under various regimes to deliver price stability and meeting other objectives.
- Identify how these decisions are transmitted to the real economy.
- Evaluate how the economy and monetary policy respond to macroeconomic shocks under various monetary policy frameworks, demonstrated through a group presentation to their peers.
Central bank practitioner-specific outcomes:
- Design a sound monetary policy framework.
- Prescribe policies consistent with the framework chosen.