For Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey (2020), the MMT literature overemphasizes the choice of the exchange rate regime and the relevance of a flexible exchange rate regime, as well as the ultimate effect of that choice upon the policy space. In addition, they argue that the role of...

Aims, functions and usefulness of central banks in less developed countries have been the topic of a widespread debate started in the 60s following the process of decolonization. The paper attempts to contribute to clarify some relevant points of the subject under discussion. Prior to the turn...

This paper has investigated the effectiveness of a forecast-based monetary policy for macroeconomic stabilization in a developing country, namely Pakistan. Using a simple New-Keynesian model and a forecast-augmented structural VAR (identified via three different strategies), we have studied the...

We estimate monetary policy reaction function for Ghana to comprehend the policy behaviour of Bank of Ghana (BOG) over the years using Generalized Methods of Moment technique within wavelet multiscale domain. The empirical results show an overriding evidence of asymmetry monetary policy rule in...

With close to 30 emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) using inflation targeting to determine monetary policy, and many of them for over 15 years, it is possible to create a meaningful measure of neutral real interest rates in these economies. The neutral real interest rate provides...

Following an analysis of the forces behind the global capital flows paradoxʺ observed in the era of advancing financial globalization, this paper sets out to investigate the opportunity costs of self-insurance through precautionary reserve holdings. We reject the idea of reserves as low-cost...

The characteristics that distinguish most developing countries, compared to large industrialized countries, include: greater exposure to supply shocks in general and trade volatility in particular, procyclicality of both domestic fiscal policy and international finance, lower credibility with...