This brief country case study on Turkey aims to summarize the fundamental developments in the banking sector, which represents almost 90 percent of the financial sector in the country. The brief has two parts. The first covers the 2001 financial crisis and the developments until end of 2007, the...

Central Bank Policy Mix: Key Concepts and Indonesia's Experience -- Central Bank Policy Mix: Issues, Challenges, and Policy Responses -- Monetary Policy -- Exchange Rate Policy and Regimes -- Managing Capital Flows -- Financial Stability and Systemic Risk -- Macroprudential Policies and...

The last several years before the global downturn of 2008-2009 saw rapid credit growth in Poland. The credit-to-gross domestic product ratio rose from about 25 percent in 2004 to close to 50 percent in 2009. Such an expansion itself might potentially be a source of risks to financial stability,...