Central banks struggling to exit ‘confused period’, economists say

Financial crisis forced turbulent period of regime change on central banks

Charles Goodhart
Charles Goodhart

Central banks are still caught up in a turbulent period of regime change since the 2008 financial crisis, panellists at an event organised by Brussels-based think tank Bruegel said today (January 18).

Charles Goodhart, a professor of economics at the London School of Economics, said the past century had seen central banks tend to pass from a period of stability – where their role and relationship with government was relatively fixed – to a "confused period" of change, and back again.

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