Since the end of 1999, Montenegro belongs to a group of dollarised economies. The process of dollarisation in Montenegro has had positive implications on economic performance. However, by renouncing the issuance function, the country gave up some significant monetary policy attributes. Since the...

In April 1998, the RBI, the Indian central bank, formally announced a shift in its policy framework from monetary targeting to a multiple indicator approach, and since then, under this framework, the bank has considered a range of economic and financial variables as policy indicators for drawing...

Inflation targeting 􀂱 monetary policy framework that requires the central bank to achieve a low inflation 􀂱 has contributed to price stability in industrialized countries. As well as the other developing countries, ex communist countries have also tried to apply this strategy, which was...

In this paper, we test whether public preferences for price stability (obtained from the Eurobarometer survey) are actually reflected in the interest rates set by eight central banks. We estimate augmented Taylor (1993) rules for the period 1976-1993 using the dynamic GMM estimator. We find,...

The reserve requirements are playing an important role among the monetary policy instruments. Often, the credit institutions are required to hold minimum reserves in order to be able to answer to their liabilities, these being kept in accounts opened at the national central banks. The frequent...

It was not until the recent global crisis that financial stability was recognized as a central objective of central banks among advanced economies. However, the concerns for financial stability in emerging markets economies are much more long dated, and come from repeated experiences dealing...

The main reason for central bank independence lies in the fact that it is necessary to clearly distinguish spending money from the ability of making money. Independence of central banks is now a characteristic of almost all developed and highly industrialized countries. In this respect, it...

In 2013 the situation in the banking sector of the RF underwent major changes. On the one hand, the volume indicators of the banking sector continued to grow, although more slowly than before. However, this growth was mainly due to aggressive behaviour of the banks in the consumer lending...

Central banks have been made more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical...

Derivatives are an important part of the process of financial innovation that swept global markets. The growth of derivatives has so many implications on the economy in general and for the environment in which the monetary policy operates. This paper examines the impact that presence of...