During the globalization process, each country tries to have monetary stability, macro economic discipline, an effective finance system, and a more competitive market mechanism. On the aspects of applied policies and politicians' reliability, their accountability and transparency is far...

We construct a GFAVAR model with newly released global data from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas to investigate the drivers of official/policy interest rate. We find that 62% of movement in global official/policy interest rates is attributed to changes in global monetary aggregates (21%), oil...

This paper provides a broad brush look at the impact of fluctuations in global food prices on domestic inflation in a large group of countries. For advanced economies, we find that these fluctuations have played a significant role over the period from 1960 to the present, but the impact has...

This note considers the international transmission of monetary policy conditions to emerging market economies (EMEs) with a focus on Brazil's experience. The main points are as follows: (i) growing foreign participation in Brazil's domestic Treasury markets has increased the sensitivity of the...

The relatively infrequent nature of major credit distress events makes a historical approach particularly useful. Using a combination of historical narrative and econometric techniques, we identify major periods of credit distress from 1875 to 2007, examine the extent to which credit distress...