Brian Romanchuk — Understanding Central Bank Control Of Interest Rates

One topic that periodically comes up is the issue of whether bond yields are "controlled" by the central bank, or whether they are set by "market forces". The typical context of the discussion is whether the bond markets can force governments to follow certain policies. I am in the camp that the central bank does "control" bond yields, but there are some subtleties in understanding how that control is defined.

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Understanding Central Bank Control Of Interest RatesBrian Romanchuk