The U.S. Subprime Crisis and the subsequent Great Recession have highlighted a renewed interest in the proper design and implementation of Early Warning Systems (E.W.S.), in order to help deter the onset of subsequent extreme financial events, through the implementation of adequate crisis...

This paper delves into the relationship between the issu-ance of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and the likelihoodof banking panic. The issuance of CBDC acts as a disturbing shockthat incentivizes depositors to withdraw all/part of their depositsfrom the commercial banks, to swap it for...

This paper empirically examines the effect of the central banks independence on exchange rate volatility by using a large data-set for the E7 (7 emerging countries) covering the period 1998-2017. This paper applies the time-varying panel causality analysis to obtain country-based results. The...

Exchange rate volatility has emerged as a significant chal-lenge for Asian emerging markets since the adoption of the liberalization process. This study examines the influence of central banktransparency on exchange rate volatility using a sample of ten important Asian emerging markets. The...

Faced with COVID-19 crisis, central banks have once again become one of the key players in the economies. The aim of this article is to analyse the actions of Central and Eastern European central banks within all their roles (monetary policy, micro-and macroprudential policy, deposit...

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...