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Lowering central bank interest rates increases inflation.
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CONTESTED PARTIAL
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Is it true that lowering central bank interest rates increases inflation?
Partly. The retrieved items offer only partial, single-country or model-based evidence: a Swaziland study reports a positive association between interest rates and inflation, while a euro-area account and a game-theoretic model suggest lower rates did not raise inflation. None of the items establishes the general causal claim at the strength asserted.
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Khumalo, L. C., Mutambara, E., & Assensoh-Kodua, A. (2017). Relationship between inflation and interest rates in Swaziland revisited. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.21511/bbs.12(4-1).2017.10
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UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK. (2019). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.25234/eclic/9045
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A game-theoretic analysis of the coexistence and competition between hard and fiat money. (2025). mdpi.com. https://doi.org/10.3390/economies13030080
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