Central Banks and Monetary Policy quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   Which country has the oldest central bank still operating?

   Answer: Sweden

   Why: The Riksbank opened in 1668, 26 years before the Bank of England, the world's second-oldest central bank.

2. 2 Medium

   Where is the 'bank for central banks' based?

   Answer: Basel

   Why: It began in 1930 with a very different job: handling the reparations Germany owed after the First World War.

3. 3 Hard

   How many of the Bank of England's nine rate-setters are outsiders?

   Answer: 4

   Why: One member, one vote means the Governor can lose: Mervyn King was outvoted on a rate cut in August 2005.

4. 4 Easy

   Which former Fed chair won the 2022 Nobel Prize in economics?

   Answer: Ben Bernanke

   Why: His research showed that failing banks were a major reason the Great Depression of the 1930s ran so deep and so long.

5. 5 Medium

   Who owned the Bank of England before 1946?

   Answer: Private shareholders

   Why: When the state took over in 1946, about 17,000 shareholders swapped their Bank stock for government bonds.

6. 6 Hard

   Which formula sets an interest rate from inflation and economic output?

   Answer: Taylor rule

   Why: Each extra point of inflation adds 1.5 points to the suggested rate, so the real interest rate climbs whenever inflation does.