Andreas Dombret: Banking sector in uncertain times - a challenge for whom? Keynote speech by Dr Andreas Dombret, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank, at the British Bankers Association, Annual International Banking Conference, London, 20 October 2016. * * *  1.
Today, that is regretfully the case, which has been amplified by the perceived ceiling and asymmetry in the price stability definition, as demonstrated in a recent paper by Bank of Finland researchers.2 To underpin inflation expectations, the first thing to do is to make sure that our inflation target is defined as symmetric – and in particular that the public understands it as symmetric.