Background: This paper examines the role of monetary and fiscal factors in interest rate variations in Sri Lanka under its deregulated regime of interest rates. In addition the paper also examines the role of monetary factors in the variation of interest rates, using a quarterly dataset for the...

This paper examines the role of monetary factors in the variation of nominal interest rates in India for the deregulated regime of interest rates and the exchange rates. Empirical analysis involves quarterly time series dataset including interest rates on 91-day, 364-day treasury bills (TBs),...

This paper examines how unanticipated monetary shocks cause variations in exchange rate in Sri Lanka under the independent float regime. The study addresses this issue under both the rational and adaptive expectations framework. GARCH (generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity)...