Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) begründet ihr »Outright-Monetary-Trans­actions«-Programm (OMT-Programm) offiziell mit Störungen in der geldpolitischen Transmission, die sich darin zeigen, dass die Kreditzinsen für Unternehmen in den Krisenländern der Eurozone trotz der massiven...

The GCC countries maintain a policy of open capital accounts and a pegged (or nearly-pegged) exchange rate, thereby reducing their freedom to run an independent monetary policy. This paper shows, however, that the pass-through of policy rates to retail rates is on the low side, reflecting the...

Over the past decade policy makers in Latin America have adopted a number of macroprudential instruments to manage the procyclicality of bank credit dynamics to the private sector and contain systemic risk. Reserve requirements, in particular, have been actively employed. Despite their...

In this paper, we develop the new Keynesian Phillips curve augmented by the cost channel of monetary transmission and analyze the central bank's best monetary policy if the central bank is obliged to minimize inflation. It can be shown that a small change of the cost channel's coefficient might...