The use of unconventional monetary tools and particularly, the resort by central banks to asset purchase programs instigated as a means of addressing prolonged periods of low inflation has not only generated new and innovative approaches to monetary policy channels aimed at facilitating the...

Uncertainty has been a prominent feature and characteristic recently. Not just in relation to Brexit, ongoing trade wars, and namely global financial markets and volatilities triggered owing to unpredictabilities, but also in matters relating to monetary and unconventional policies. Price...

As well as highlighting why Unconventional Monetary Policy Tools have become so important, this presentation aims to highlight wide ranging implications from monetary and stability goals, to environmental implications. With a focus on the "Report of the Working Group and Committee on the Global...

Even though it has recently been highlighted that the timeline for recovery from the ongoing pandemic is highly uncertain and “will depend heavily on the course of the pandemic”, consumer confidence and expectations, also impact the level of consumer spending and the role of providing...

In accentuating the role of central banks in the future and current payments system, this presentation aims to highlights why central banks do not only serve as channels through which risks attributed to the growing popularity and use of crypto asset platforms can be mitigated, but also why they...

Even though unregulated and decentralized platforms such as crypto assets are considered to have the potential to provide low-income earners with cheap banking alternative and “perhaps put pressure on banks to lower fees” (WSJ, 2019), its volatile nature, lack of consensual standards as...

Whilst economic, political linkages and relationships constitute the theme of this paper, the paper also attempts to address why central bank independence still lacks certain vital attributes which embody adequate governance and accountability mechanisms -- which are necessary if better results...

A sufficient and appropriate degree of central bank independence is widely acknowledged to be necessary for the goal of achieving price stability. However, despite the levels of independence claimed to be enjoyed by several central banks, recent events indicate shifts in focus of monetary policy...

The need for effective supervision of capital markets is becoming all the more evident in the aftermath of the recent LIBOR and rate rigging scandals. Financial regulators or indeed bank regulators cannot perform such a function effectively without the involvement of auditors in the supervisory...

As well as providing an analysis of how financial stability could be sustained through the appropriate targeting of policy instruments at debt gearing, this paper aims to provide an overview of the respective roles which governments and shareholders could assume in deterring financial...