In December 2015, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) initiated the process of "normalization," with the objective of gradually raising the federal funds rate back to "normal"-i.e., levels that are "neither expansionary nor contrary" and are consistent with the established 2 percent longer-run goal...

Interest rates in China are composed of a mix of both market-determined interest rates (interbank rates and bond yields), and regulated interest rates (retail lending and deposit rates), reflecting China's gradual process of interest rate liberalization. This paper investigates the main drivers...

The paper investigates from the policy rate to the market rates under the interest rate marketization of the People's Bank of China (PBC) since 2014. The focus is on the pass-through of the PBC's policy target rates pass-through to the market rates. Empirical results, on the daily basis of an...