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How European is the European Central Bank's Monetary Policy?

Petrova, Teodora D. - 2010

and could drive their economies out of alignment (Salvatore, 2002).The literature on the topic suggests a theory also …

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Three essays on switching costs in banking, the lending channel and entry in the banking industry

Yuan, Yuan - 2010

My dissertation examines the magnitude of switching costs for bank-dependent borrowers, their relationship to macro- nancial variables and their impacts on the effect of monetary policy. I also investigate the implication of bank entry and bank product differentiation on social welfare.The first...

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Three essays on bank efficiency

Chen, Yi-Kai - 2002

Since commercial banks play important roles in the financial markets, it isimportant to evaluate whether banks operate efficiently. Moreover, given increasedcompetition from non-bank financial institutions, commercial banks should operatemore efficiently than they did previously. Commercial...

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On effects of gradual capital market deregulation in Japan: spillovers in a mildly segmented stock market

Tobita, Naomi - 2003

This dissertation discusses Japanese capital market deregulation for 1980:12-1996:12, which began gradually with the capital procurement of the most multinationalized firms and differentiated them from the pure domestic firms. We try to quantify what actually happened in the Tokyo Stock Exchange...

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Essays on gradual wage-price adjustments, monetary unions and open economy macrodynamics

Proaño Acosta, Christian - 2007

This dissertation deals with the role of wage and price inflation dynamics and of monetary policy for the stability of monetary economies from the theoretical and empirical perspective. On the one hand, it analyzes the case of small open economies within a monetary union where, by definition,...

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The cost of political intervention in monetary policy

Zis, George; Cobham, David; Papadopoulos, Athanasios - 2004

George Zis, David Cobham and Athanasios Papadopoulos. The cost of political intervention in monetary policy. International Finance, 2004, vol. 7, no. 3, pages 471-493. Published by and copyright Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version of this article is available from...

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Information, Central Bank Communication, and Aggregate Fluctuations

Mendes, Rhys R. - 2008

This thesis examines two closely related issues: (1) the ability of imperfect information models to explain some aspects of business cycle dynamics, and (2) the interaction between central bank communications and monetary policy. These issues are related because central bank communications can...

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Monetary policy and disintermediation in South Africa : 1970–2010 / Michael Oldfield

Oldfield, Michael John - 2011

This study examines the development of monetary theory and various policy frameworks as implemented at the time of … achieve the research objective given above, a review was firstly conducted of the literature on monetary theory and policy …

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Output volatility in developing countries

De Hart, Petrus Jacobus - 2008

Over the past few decades, many countries have experienced a marked decline in the volatility of output. However, there is still a significant difference between developed and developing countries in the level of output volatility. A proposed explanation for this phenomenon is the impact of...

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The relationship between monetary policy and investment in South Africa

Jackson, Michael Keith Caulton - 2007

the Treatise (1930), but more completely in the General Theory (1936). The treatment of monetary forces in economic growth … pursued in the approach to monetary theory adopted by those who could broadly be characterised as Post Keynesian. The … theoretical analysis and empirical examination are drawn out both for monetary theory within the Post Keynesian mould, and for the …

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