This paper is concerned with the design of institutional arrangements for low inflation in small open economies. In the real world of information asymmetries, uncertain expectations and changeable preferences, it is not enough to create an autonomous and publicly accountable central bank. In...

The adverse impact of sovereign debt defaults on the international financial system has occasioned intense interest in methodologies for assessing sovereign debt risk. This is manifest in an outpouring of studies, research which has uncovered the fact that the riskiness of sovereign debt is...

This paper proposes an approach to macroeconomic policy which equips the authorities in small, open, financially-integrated economies (SOFIEs) to target the exchange rate by influencing the volumes of trade in goods and services to achieve equilibrium at the target rate. This is achieved by the...