We estimate the impact of the extensity of macroprudential policies on the correlation of the policy interest rates between the center economies (CEs, i.e., the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area), and the peripheral economies (PHs). We find a more extensive implementation of macroprudential...

We investigate why and how the financial conditions of developing and emerging market countries (peripheral countries) can be affected by the movements in the center economies - the U.S., Japan, the Eurozone, and China. We apply a two-step approach. First, we estimate the sensitivity of...

I discuss how the unconventional monetary policy measures implemented over the past several years - quantitative and credit easing, and forward guidance - can be analysed in the context of conventional models of asset prices, with particular reference to exchange rates. I then discuss...