This paper examines a range of issues relating to bond markets in the ASEAN5 (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) - physical infrastructure including trading, clearing and settlement; regulation, supervision and legal underpinnings; and derivatives markets - and finds that...

Abstract Empirical evidence is mounting that, in advanced economies, changes in monetary policy have a more benign impact on the economy—given better anchored inflation expectations and inflation being less responsive to variation in unemployment—compared to the past. We examine another...

The adequate monetary and fiscal policies are of great importance for the effects mitigation of the global financial crisis. The reduction of interest rates and fiscal stimulus should prevent further deteriorations in the money and capital markets as well as in the economy. Decreases in key...

The chapter analyses Serbian financial markets: capital market, money market and foreign exchange market. Market fall of 26% was determined during 2011 compared to the record breaking 2008, despite a visible recovery after 2009 and 2010. Foreign exchange market has dominated with the average 62%...

This paper investigates the problem of using the macroeconomic models to analyze the balance value. Actually, the analyses are performed under the IS-LM model. Since the balance value depends on the balance of goods and services market and the money market, the authors have studied the...

Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of England changed its rate very frequently. Why did the policies of these central banks, the two pillars of the gold standard, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to...

Despite the anti-crisis measures in the US and the euro area that were the policy response to the global financial crisis in 2007 and 2008, the stress on the interbank money market was still present in 2009 and 2010. The increasing inflationary pressures will require an increase in the ECB key...

We extract an index of interest rate spreads from various money market segments to assess the level of funding stress in real time. We find that during the 2007–2009 financial crisis, money markets switched between low and high stress regimes except for brief periods of extreme stress....

This paper presents a theoretical model based on risk diversification to rationalize the observed dichotomy in the federal funds market by which small banks are net providers of funds while large banks become net purchasers. As larger banks are more diversified they can raise a larger proportion...