The size and maturity structure of the government debt market have important implications for monetary policy, especially in EMEs. This paper documents the remarkable growth of the market over the past decade in terms of size, issuance and maturity structure of combined government and central...

This paper provides a first assessment of the Federal Reserve's recent Maturity Extension Program, dubbed Operation Twist 2. Despite the mere exchange of short-term for long-term Treasury securities, the announcement effect is comparable to the second Large Scale Asset Purchase programme...

Serious fiscal vulnerabilities arising from many years of high government/GDP ratios have created new and complex interactions between public debt management and monetary policy. Although their formal mandates have not changed, recent balance sheet policies of many central banks have tended to...

Full publication: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2078895" Threat of Fiscal Dominance?We identify the economic environments in which it is most important for monetary policy to be able to track the natural rate of interest. To do this, we study two models: one is a standard New Keynesian model; in the...

Over the past decade, prudent fiscal management has served Thailand well in cushioning the impact of the global financial turbulence. However, going forward, fiscal risks which include a weakened global economic outlook, unbalanced fiscal structure and growing contingent liabilities may have...

As Saudi Arabia's oil export revenues constitute about 90% of its budget, its fiscal policy is largely a function of developments in the oil market. Over the years, a countercyclical fiscal stance has been used to reduce the volatility of domestic growth against the background of vacillating oil...

Setting the interest rate in an inflation targeting regime requires a total assessment, often translated into forecasts, of the outlook for inflation and real activity. In the assessment process, it is useful to have some references or cross-checks, in terms of simple rules. Although simple...

Acting in parallel with changes in Thailand's inflation dynamics, the fall in inflation and inflation variability is a worldwide phenomenon that has coincided with accelerating globalisation. This paper explains that global factors have played an important role in changing the dynamics of...