This study examined the nexus between monetary policy and the achievement of a bank's profit objective. There have been lots of arguments about the benefits of monetary policy implementation on deposit money bank's operations, since the policies have been seen to impact on their performance....

This study provides robust evidence on how the choice ofthe policy instrument for monetary policy influences its impact oneconomic activity. We study the case of South Korea for the period1980-2017. We use FAVAR models that allow a comprehensive explo-ration of different areas of economic...

Whether or not inflation targeting adoption leads to increased volatility of exchange rates is controversial. The volatility increases with inflation targeting as a result of the flexible exchange rate regime. Others argue that inflation targeting delivers the best outcomes in terms of lower...

This paper deals with the neglected issue of central banks' social responsibility. Since central banks exert the "structural power" on economies as well as on societies, their power should be regulated and controlled by society through a reliable framework of social responsibility. To that aim,...

This paper aims to analyse the dynamics of foreign exchange markets in a country facing political uncertainty that prompt capital outflow from the country. The economic environment under investigation is characterized by dual foreign exchange markets: a formal or official market for foreign...

The Taylor (1993) rule for determining interest rates is generalized to account for three additional variables: The money supply, money velocity, and the unemployment rate. Thus, five parameters, i.e. weights assigned to the deviation in the inflation rate, the deviation in real GDP (Gross...

This paper analyses the effects of the foreign exchange re-serves accumulation on the key nominal and real macroeconomicvariables (GDP, employment, prices and exchange rates) in BRICcountries (Brazil, Russia, India, China). VAR model was used toempirically examine the effect of accumulation of...

Communication has become a vital part of modern monetary policy, and its importance is even higher during a crisis when a central bank has to calm the markets down. This paper studies the information content of different styles of communication from individual central bank policymakers in the...

This study examines the problem that a central bank may face after exiting a monetary quantitative easing policy. It develops a simple dynamic optimization model of a central bank, which finds that if the bank needs to absorb a substantial amount of excess reserves when exiting, the monetary...

This study examines the effectiveness of non-linear monetary policy interest rate channel shocks for the Turkish economy using the threshold VAR analysis in the period of 2006-2019. The interest channel is examined with the two models for both consumption transfer and investment transfer models....