By Andrew Hauser and Andrew Brigden of the Bank's Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division.
This article is one of a series on the UK monetary policy process. It discusses how the assessment of money and credit data fits into the Bank's quarterly forecast round. Monetary statistics are available more rapidly than most other economic data and provide early information on the near-term economic outlook. The analysis on money and credit might be used to adjust some output of the Bank's macroeconometric model. It could also help the MPC to assess the risks around its central projections, reflected in the inflation and GDP fan charts.
Money and credit in an inflation-targeting regime