Heightened volatility in cross-border capital flows has increased exchange rate volatility across emerging markets as well as in advanced economies, setting the stage for more active management of currencies. Traditionally, foreign exchange rate intervention has been the primary tool to address...

The low level of global interest rates and the high liquidity resulting from the quantitative easing policies adopted by advanced countries in the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007–09 bolstered capital flows to emerging market economies. However, the uncertainties relating to the...

The last three decades have been marked by financial market globalisation and a higher degree of integration of emerging markets into the world economy. One distinct feature of this in integration has been a sharp increase in portfolio flows between advanced and emerging market countries. Since...

The interaction between fiscal and monetary policies evolves over time and differs from country to country. In this study, we first present the case of Turkey. During the 1990s, the country's fiscal deficits and public debt ballooned. Monetary policy was severely constrained by the resulting...