Central Banking

IMF's Lipsky on the benefits of transparency

The benefits of central bank transparency should be remembered despite some drawbacks, said John Lipsky, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

"While excessive certainty about the future path of interest rates may contribute to greater than optimal build up in leverage, and the risk of a disorderly unwinding later, I think the real problem is one of incentives in the financial system," Lipsky said. "As a result, measures to prevent this build up in

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