Traditional explanations for trade misinvoicing -- high custom duties and weak domestic economies — are less persuasive in a world of high growth emerging markets who have low trade barriers. A 35- country data set over a 26 year span, covering both industrialised and developing...

We examine inflation and uncertainty in the UK with a version of the Markov Switching model, which allows for changes in the variance as well as in the mean and persistence of a series. We find that the UK’s attempts at exchange rate pegs in the form of shadowing the deutschmark and entering...

Thinking of what a global currency could be or represent an idea on which the authors have strong public opinions the question of the central banks’ role and conduct during the last crisis has become not only complex but a changing one. As regards this latest process,we feel that we separate...

Thinking of what a global currency could be or represent - an idea on which the authors have strong public opinions - the question of the central banks’ role and conduct during the last crisis has become not only complex but a changing one. As regards this latest process, we feel that we...

The paper analyses the market perception about the performance of Pakistani commercial banks in the wake of financial liberalisation and deregulation measures taken by the central bank over the last two decades. For this purpose, it uses the Survey approach. Out of 35 commercial banks, 15 banks...

This paper deals with the computation and analysis of some fundamental reserve aggregates and associated monetary statistics which impart important information regarding the design and conduct of monetary policy at the State Bank of Pakistan. Specifically, we compute the data series for...

This paper argues that serious fiscal vulnerabilities arising from many years of high government debt will create new and complex interactions between public debt management (PDM) and monetary policy (MP). The paper notes that, although their formal mandates have not changed, recent balance...

Prominent economists such as John B. Taylor and William White have argued that monetary policy mistakes have triggered the current financial crisis. Central banks, however, seem to be mainly concerned with trouble-shooting and the design of new rules for banking supervision. Partly drawing on...

The ECB’s monetary policy has received considerable attention in recent years. This is less the case, however, for its regular monetary policy preparation and decision-making process. This paper reviews how the factors usually considered as critical for the success of a central banking system...