Global crisis has underlined the essentiality of deepening our understanding and knowledge about the financial system. Accordingly, recent debates on macroeconomic policies focused exclusively on the financial system. This survey aims at contributing to the efforts on expanding our existing...

This study aims to determine whether the traditional or portfolio approach is relevant for developing countries, by using the relationship between stock prices and exchange rates. For this purpose, cointegration (Pesaran et al., 2001) and causality tests (Toda Yamamoto, 1995) are used to examine...

The transmission of policy decisions to financial markets is an integral part of the monetary transmission mechanism. However, one of the major problems in estimating the effect of monetary policy on asset prices is the simultaneous response of policy actions and the asset prices to each other....