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In a paper published today, the Bank of England provides an initial analysis of the distributional effects of its asset purchase programme (QE).
Published on
23 August 2012
The paper forms part of the Bank’s response to a request by the Treasury Committee for the Bank to explain the costs and benefits of its policy actions, in particular to groups that are perceived to have been negatively affected.
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