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LINDAU http://www.philadelphiaflyersteamstore.com/adidas-cole-bardreau-jersey , Germany, Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- "Research has confirmed that central banks are not powerless at the effective lower bound," President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi said here Wednesday, reiterating the effectiveness of non-standard monetary policy taken by central banks on both sides of the Atlantic since the last financial crisis.


Draghi delivered a keynote speech at the 6th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting on Economic Sciences, saying that central banks can continue pursuing their price stability mandates even in the most adverse circumstances http://www.philadelphiaflyersteamstore.com/adidas-claude-giroux-jersey , as long as they are willing to explore non-standard policy avenues including forward guidance, large-scale asset purchase, etc.


"While forward guidance is a useful instrument, recent research has highlighted that its effectiveness can be improved if combined with other non-standard monetary policies," he added.


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"Large-scale asset purchases can ease these constraints and increase investors' risk-bearing capacity, leading to a portfolio rebalancing towards risky assets and to strengthened lending activity for banks," Draghi said.


In addition http://www.philadelphiaflyersteamstore.com/adidas-brian-elliott-jersey , the ECB head regarded the unconventional tool of monetary policy -- "Outright Monetary Transactions"(OMT) -- a program to purchase bonds issued by Eurozone member-states in secondary sovereign bond markets under certain conditions, which was announced by the ECB in 2012 but was never used so far, as effective too.


"That the ECB had the tool at its disposal was sufficient to anchor expectations at the 'good' outcome," Draghi said, concluding that policy actions undertaken in the last ten years in monetary policy and in regulation and supervision have made the world more resilient.


"But we should continue preparing for new challenges http://www.philadelphiaflyersteamstore.com/adidas-brandon-manning-jersey ," adding that policies, especially monetary policy, needed to be adjusted, even though it was never easy, when the world changes as it did ten years ago.


17 Nobel Laureates participate in the four-day Lindau Meeting on Economic