This article discusses the key issues of macroeconomics and finance, raised in a new book by Alan Greenspan "The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting" (2013). Firstly, the role of the state in economy, excessiveness of the government interventions, the need to...

This paper is about the study of mechanisms of money transmission in Russia's economy based on the econometric analysis of macrodata as well as on the data about commercial banks balances. The authors demonstrated that for the last several years the channel of bank credit and the channel of...

This research is aimed at revealing both real purpose of activity of Russia's regulatory bodies in monetary and credit sphere and rule for activities of the Bank of Russia in 1999 through 2007. Economic research tasks coincide with revealing of such rule. According to this rule the Central Bank...

This paper is about the study of mechanisms of money transmission in Russia's economy based on the econometric analysis of macrodata as well as on the data about commercial banks balances. The authors demonstrated that for the last several years the channel of bank credit and the channel of...

This research is aimed at revealing both real purpose of activity of Russia's regulatory bodies in monetary and credit sphere and rule for activities of the Bank of Russia in 1999 through 2007. Economic research tasks coincide with revealing of such rule. According to this rule the Central Bank...

Jonathan Macey's recent article quot;Commercial Banking and Democracy: The Illusive Quest for Deregulationquot; offers such a problematic argument for banking regulation that it implies such regulation is losing its intellectual foundation

This paper presents a methodology for modelling and forecasting multi-variate time series with linear restrictions using the structural state-space framework. The model has natural applications to forecasting time series of macroeconomic/financial identities and accounts. The explicit modelling...

We examine whether the robustifying nature of Taylor rule cross-checking under model uncertainty carries over to the case of parameter uncertainty. Adjusting monetary policy based on this kind of cross-checking can improve the outcome for the monetary authority. This, however, crucially depends...

The Taylor rule is a widely used concept in monetary macroeconomics and has been used in various areas either for positive or normative analyses. We examine whether the robustifying nature of Taylor rule cross-checking in the spirit of R island and Sveen (2011) also carries over to the case of...

This paper investigates the identification, the determinacy and the stability of ad hoc, "quasi-optimal" and optimal policy rules augmented with financial stability indicators (such as asset prices deviations from their fundamental values) and minimizing the volatility of the policy interest...