Inflation targeting (IT) has emerged in recent years as a leading framework for conducting monetary policy in order to attain price stability. Like many other developing countries, Egypt is now aspiring to introduce inflation targeting as a framework for its monetary policy. This research...

In this paper we analyze the achievement of the countries with regard to financial liberalization. Financial liberalization brought many new challenges many of which remain as reforms continue to be implemented. These challenges relate to the way in which monetary policy is formulated and...

The objective of this paper is to test whether monetary policy in Egypt has been backward or forward-looking over the 2002M1-2012M12 period. Using different specifications of a simple Taylor rule, we show that the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) has become more forward-looking, especially after it...

This essay reexamines the great contributions made by Dr. Ali Al-Gritly to Egypt. He was the finance minister for a short period at the beginning of the 1950s and later was appointed as chairman of the Bank of Alexandria. In 1966, he completed a book (Al-Gritly [1966 (1974)]) on the economic...