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Huw Pill, the Bank of England's chief economist, acknowledges the importance of broad money aggregates in macroeconomic forecasting and explores the Bank of England's response of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, including detail of monetary policy decisions made during that time, the lessons learnt and the changes that have been implemented as a result. From the second session of the 2025 IIMR Monetary Conference 'Why were so many economists wrong about inflation in the early 2020s?' that was held at the University of Buckingham on November 12th, 2025.

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