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A monetary policy in which the central bank increases the money supply in the banking system, as by purchasing bonds from banks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: economics, sciences
Examples
- 2012, The Economist, Jul 14th 2012 issue, Quantitative easing: QE, or not QE? In times of severe economic distress, however, rates may fall to zero. Cue QE. When the Bank of Japan (BoJ) pioneered QE in 2001, its goal was to buy enough securities to create a desired quantity of reserves (hence, “quantitative easing”). Its actions, it hoped, would raise asset prices and end deflation.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Possibly partly after Japanese 量的緩和 (ryōteki kanwa, “quantitative easing”), short form of 量的 (ryōteki, “quantitative”) 金融 (kin'yū, “financial”) 緩和 (kanwa, “easing”).
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
expansió quantitativa
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Chinese Mandarin:
量化寬鬆 /量化宽松
(liànghuà kuānsōng)
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Czech:
kvantitativní uvolňování
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Estonian:
kvantitatiivne õgvendamine
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Finnish:
setelirahoitus
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Finnish:
määrällinen elvytys
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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French:
assouplissement quantitatif
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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German:
quantitative Lockerung
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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German:
monetäre Lockerung
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Hungarian:
mennyiségi lazítás
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Indonesian:
pelonggaran kuantitatif
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Indonesian:
cetak uang
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Italian:
alleggerimento quantitativo
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Japanese:
量的金融緩和政策
(ryōteki kin’yū kanwa seisaku)
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Korean:
양적완화
(yangjeogwanhwa)
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Malay:
peringanan kuantitatif
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Norwegian Bokmål:
kvantitativ lettelse
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Polish:
luzowanie ilościowe
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Portuguese:
flexibilização quantitativa
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Russian:
коли́чественное смягче́ние
(kolíčestvennoje smjaxčénije)
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Spanish:
expansión cuantitativa
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Swedish:
kvantitativa lättnader
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
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Welsh:
lliniaru meintiol
— monetary policy where the central bank creates money electronically
