The Chinese economy has undergone three major phases: the 1978-97 period marked as the SOE-led economy, the 1998-2015 phase as the investment-driven economy, and the new normal economy since 2016. All three economies have been shaped by the government financial policies, defined as a set of...

This study delves into the repercussions of fiscal policies, particularly those marked by high expenditure financed by monetary means, on key macroeconomic indicators in Sierra Leone. Employing a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model, the analysis illuminates how shocks in one...

The secession of Southern Sudan from the mother nation of Sudan was a direct result of political agreement known as the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). It was expected by the totalitarian government of Northern Sudan that it can contain the civil war between the Sudan Popular Liberation...

We consider a framework featuring a central bank, private and financial agents as well as a financial market. The central bank's objective is to maximize a functional, which measures the classical trade-off between output and inflation plus income from the sales of inflation linked calls minus...

Despite often-abundant natural resources, so-called “Indian Country” suffers the worst systemic poverty in North America today. Much of the economic story of Indian Country is one of hopelessly limited property rights naively designed to protect its wards. Whether encumbrances on fee simple...

Employing unique data derived directly from Reuters electronic brokerage platform for currency trading, this paper investigates the reaction of investors to central bank announcements on foreign exchange market in Poland in years 1999-2003. Our sample period is interesting as it captures a time...

We analyze the impact of monetary policy communication of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), i.e. NBP announcements of interest rates changes and NBP announcements of new macroeconomic figures, on the financial market in Poland in its two main segments: the foreign exchange market and the stock...

In this paper, we examine the trends in the CPI and the core part of the CPI to bring out a grievous error in the core CPI. The core in certain years shows a jump of as much as 7% in certain quarters due to the error in the way the rent prices are computed. During the periods following the Pay...