David Barmes

In an increasingly hot and volatile world, central banks will need innovative approaches to guarantee price stability such as adaptive inflation targeting, say economists David Barmes and Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva.

Inflation has cooled for the time being, but environmental shocks and geopolitical tensions call for a rethink of inflation forecasting and monetary policy implementation, write David Barmes and Simon Dikau of the Grantham Research Institute.

Friday’s Jackson Hole meeting is an opportunity for central banks to face their interdependence with society and the environment and lead accordingly, say Positive Money’s David Barmes and Akiksha Chatterji in response to former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King.