Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası (TCMB) 2010 yılının sonlarından itibaren yeni bir para politikası çerçevesi tasarlayarak uygulamaya koymuştur. Bu makalede, yeni politikanın ortaya çıkış nedenleri, uygulaması ve sonuçları özetlenmekte; söz konusu politika çerçevesinin, orta...

Based on a vector autoregressive model, this paper shows that time variation in monthly excess returns on Swiss government bonds and stocks is predominantly driven by news of inflation and dividends, respectively. This finding is in marked contrast to US evidence which points to a more prominent...

Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, these relationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....

This paper describes the Australian experience of domestic financial deregulation, capital account liberalisation and the float of the exchange rate, and provides a comparison to China's current efforts to reform its own financial system. In doing so, it considers similarities and differences in...

We estimate the response of Asian stock market prices to exogenous monetary policy shocks using a vector error correction model. In our paper, monetary policy transmits to stock market price through three routes: money by itself, exchange rate, and inflation. Our result points to the fact that...

The mainstay of the paper is formed by an analysis of the effects of China asset rate changes on Asian financial markets, China’s decision-making process, the impact of China’s economic development on global trade and production connections, and China’s ability to maintain a sustainable...

An overview is given of the utilization of strategic market games in the development of a game theory based theory of money and financial institutions.

Our paper provides a complete characterization of leverage and default in binomial economies with financial assets serving as collateral. First, our Binomial No-Default Theorem states that any equilibrium is equivalent (in real allocations and prices) to another equilibrium in which there is no...

We review the theory of leverage developed in collateral equilibrium models with incomplete markets. We explain how leverage tends to boost asset prices, and create bubbles. We show how leverage can be endogenously determined in equilibrium, and how it depends on volatility. We describe the...

This study employs both contingent and non-contingent claim models to test for the existence of market discipline hypothesis for derivative contracts in U.S. banking industry. In addition to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) measure of systematic risk and standard deviation of a bank’s...