We extend the literature on budget deficits and interest rates in three ways: we examine both advanced and emerging economies and for the first time a large emerging market panel; explore interactions to explain some of the heterogeneity in the literature; and apply system GMM. There is overall a...

We find that in a sample of emerging economies business cycles are more volatile than in developed ones, real interest rates are countercyclical and lead the cycle, consumption is more volatile than output and net exports are strongly countercyclical. We present a model of a small open economy,...

Purpose The purpose of the paper is to examine the differences in the impact of financial stress in advanced and emerging economies. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ a panel vector autoregression model (PVAR) for a comparative analysis of the relationship between financial stress,...

We introduce external risks, in the form of shocks to the level and volatility of world interest rates, into a small open economy model subject to the risk of sudden stops—large recessions together with abrupt reversals in capital inflows| and characterize optimal macroprudential policy in...

This paper examines the role of monetary factors in the variation of nominal interest rates in India for the deregulated regime of interest rates and the exchange rates. Empirical analysis involves quarterly time series dataset including interest rates on 91-day, 364-day treasury bills (TBs),...

In this article, we present the analytical approximation of zero-coupon bonds and swaption prices for general short rate models. The approximation is based on regular and singular expansions with respect to the small volatility and contains a low-dimensional integration. The model in hand...