Structural innovations in multivariate dynamic systems are typically hidden and often identified by means of a-priori economic reasoning. Under multivariate Gaussian model innovations there is no loss measure available to distinguish alternative orderings of variables or, put differently,...

The Reserve Bank's operational independence, once revolutionary, is shown to now be widely accepted internationally in the fascinating story of how this small central bank took the opportunities created by the political changes of the 1980s to design a unique institutional policy framework,...