As a result, we focus on the first two channels and what they could mean for London.īorrowing costs are certainly up (Figure 1). Exchange rate effects will also be hard to pick out when the pound is already fluctuating due to wider investor sentiment.
The effects of the asset price channel are hard to differentiate at the regional level, and the exchange rate channel receives less conclusive support in data studies. There is a borrowing cost channel, a credit channel, an asset price channel and an exchange rate channel. The transmission from interest rates to output is well-studied, and tends to come under four broad headings. While such a sharp tightening of policy should help inflation return to target sooner, this comes at the expense of slower economic activity. This represents the sharpest rise in interest rates since the late 1980s, to match the largest UK inflation surge in over 40 years. Lying in the middle, the Bank has hiked from a policy rate of 0.1% to 4.5% in just over a year. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve have hiked interest rates by 3.75 percentage points (ppts) and 5ppts respectively. The Bank of England is not alone in hiking interest rates since the beginning of 2022. London’s economy should be relatively shielded from the macro effects of higher rates This box sets out the macroeconomic and financial consequences of rising interest rates for London and highlights potential vulnerabilities.
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These trends look unlikely to overflow into a full financial crisis, but it is important to examine the risks, as financial services remain a major force in London’s economy – making up more than 20p in every £1 of its output in 2021. The sudden switch from easy money to tight lending is also generating turbulence in the financial sector, culminating in a set of bank failures. This shift will drag on economic activity, but the results may vary across UK regions and sectors. Central banks have responded to these inflationary pressures by sharply tightening monetary policy. Massive pandemic policy stimulus combined with stretched supply chains to spark cost pressures around the world, which became a crisis when energy prices surged after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Higher interest rates and quantitative tightening are reversing the post-2008 global policy regime, with broad-ranging consequences.
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