To the best of our knowledge, our paper is the first systematic study of the predictive power of monetary aggregates for future inflation for the cross section of New EU Member States. This paper provides stylized facts on monetary versus non-monetary (economic and fiscal) determinants of...

This paper studies the wealth channel in China. Using the structural vector autoregression method, we find that a loosening of China's monetary policy indeed leads to higher asset prices, which in turn are linked to household consumption. However, the importance of the wealth channel as a part...

This paper deals with a "new" type of monetary policy making: Inflation Targeting (IT). It attempts to identify reasons for which countries might be inclined to adopt this framework for monetary policy. By reviewing recent experience of inflation targeting countries, the paper outlines the major...

This paper studies the wealth channel in China. Using the structural vector autoregression method, we find that a loosening of China's monetary policy indeed leads to higher asset prices, which in turn are linked to household consumption. However, the importance of the wealth channel as a part...

This paper studies the wealth channel in China. Using the structural vector autoregression method, we find that a loosening of China's monetary policy indeed leads to higher asset prices, which in turn are linked to household consumption. However, the importance of the wealth channel as a part...

This paper studies the wealth channel in China. Although the wealth channel has been found to be functioning in many advanced countries, its existence is yet to be explored in most emerging economies, also in China. In order to illuminate dynamics between monetary policy, asset prices and...

The consumer price index stood at 0.6% in October 2013 (against 0.5% in October 2012), having shown a 0.4 p.p. increase as compared to September 2013. Therefore inflation increased more than 6.3% on a year-over-year basis at the end of the 10-month period. In the first 18 days of November 2013...

In September 2013, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) amounted to 0.2% (against 0.6% in September 2012), which is by 0.1 pp. higher than its value recorded in August 2013. Thus, the inflation rate in per annum terms, as seen by the results of the first 9 months of 2013, increased above 6.1%. Over...

In August 2013, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) amounted to 0.1% (same as its level in August 2012), which is by 0.7 pp. lower than its value recorded in July 2013. Thus, the inflation rate in per annum terms, as seen by the results of the first 8 months of 2013, increased above 6.5%. Over the...

In July 2013, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) amounted to 0.8% (against 1.2% in July 2012), which is by 0.4 p.p. higher than its value recorded in June 2013. Over the period from 1 August through 26 August, the CPI rose by 0.1%. Thus, the inflation rate in per annum terms increased above 5.6%. In...