[fre] Ce papier aborde les conséquences du PSC sur la soutenabilité budgétaire et financière, et les risques liés à l'indépendance opérationnelle de la Banque centrale (BC). Une mauvaise coopération entre autorités budgétaire et monétaire peut s'avérer coûteuse dans deux cas : . -...

AbstractThe following sections are included:The Rediscovery of Financial Stability by the Central Banking Community of the Advanced EconomiesFinancial Stability: What is It?PreventionRegulate Risky Behavior, Not InstitutionsRegulation and Resolution Need to be Global in ScopeMacroprudential...

The Paper considers alternative exchange rate regimes for the 10 East European accession candidates, both prior to EU accession and during the period following EU accession but prior to EMU membership. We conclude that from an economic point of view, EMU membership should be as early as...

This paper takes a systematic look at the portfolio choice problem faced by investment banks or funds investing in transition economies. We relate the performance of projects in the transition economies to the broader macroeconomic and international environment, which affect the project through...

The purpose of the UDROP proposal is to prevent debt rollover crises for foreign-currency-denominated debt instruments. For such liabilities, there is no international analogue to the domestic lender of last resort or to domestic deposit insurance. UDROP stands for Universal Debt Rollover Option...

The paper studies the solvency of the Indian public sector and the eventual monetization and inflation implied by stabilization of the debt/GNP ratio without any changes in the primary deficit. The non-stationarity of the discounted public debt suggests that solvency cannot be maintained with an...

We analyse deflationary bubbles in a model where money is the only financial asset. We show that such bubbles are consistent with the household’s transversality condition if and only if the nominal money stock is falling. Our results are in sharp contrast to those in several prominent...

The paper presents a non-technical survey of some of the issues involved in the design of stabilization policy in developing countries with special emphasis on policy responses to external shocks. First, the six most important external economic parameters of developing countries are reviewed: 1)...

Market interest rates on sovereign debt issued by the 12 Eurozone national governments differ very little from each other, despite the credit ratings of these governments ranging from triple A to single A, and despite significant differences among their objective indicators of fiscal-financial...

This note comments on two central issues for fiscal policy design in the United Kingdom, highlighted in the recent ‘Code for Fiscal Stability’ proposed by the new Labour government. The first concerns the merits of the so-called ‘golden rule of public sector investment’ – the...