macro

Asset Purchases

Asset purchases are monetary policy actions in which a central bank buys financial assets from the market to inject liquidity and influence interest rates. When executed on a large scale, these operations are commonly described as quantitative easing (QE) and they expand the central bank's balance sheet.

Example: During a financial crisis, the central bank announced a program of asset purchases to increase liquidity and support market functioning.

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