This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the possibleasymmetric response of gasoline prices to crude oil price changes using an errorcorrection model with GARCH errors. Recent papers have looked at this issue. Some ofthese papers estimate a form of error correction model,...

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse the revenue-expenditure models of publicfinance by considering the possibility of non-linear and asymmetric adjustment. A long-runrelationship between general government expenditure and revenues is identified for Italy.Following system-wide...

In this dissertation three different economic issues have been analyzed. The firstissue is whether monetary policy rules can improve forecasting accuracy of inflation.The second is whether the preference of a central bank is symmetry or not. The last issueis whether the behavior of aggregate...

This paper has three objectives. First, it aims at revealing the logic of interest rate setting pursued by monetary authorities of 12 new EU members. Using estimation of an augmented Taylor rule, we find that this setting was not always consistent with the official monetary policy. Second, we...

within VAR, structural VAR, and the Factor-Augmented VAR framework. We document a well-functioning transmission mechanism similar to the euro area countries, especially in terms of persistence of monetary policy shocks. Subject to various sensitivity tests, we find that contractionary monetary...