The purpose of this paper is to make a comparison between how countries with inflation targeting (IT) fared compared to their non-IT peers in general during the period of 2003 and 2011, which is based on Kaynak (2012). The dataset, which is used in the analysis, has been provided through the...

Most of the problems that the European Central Bank has encountered are due to the slow progress made in improving the quality of the monetary union. The increasing variance of the inflationary process among the 12 countries, especially at the extremes of income level distribution – between...

The article looks at the disparity of views among experts regarding the growth of the “Euro-dollar market”. Contradictory explanations have been offered by various authors on the sources and uses of these funds. On one side of the spectrum is the idea that Euro-dollar deposits are the result...

This paper examines the intentions and outturns of central bank policies in Europefrom the collapse of the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates until the start ofEMU in 1999. It focuses on the lessons that can be drawn from the three dominant policy strategies of money targeting,...

Recent theoretical developments in monetary policy are based on the view that the effectiveness of monetary policy is strongly influenced by the interaction between the behaviour of the monetary policy-makers and the private sector. Optimal monetary policy and the possible desirability of...

This paper examines the policy rate recommendations of the Bank of Canada’s Governing Council (GC) and the C.D. Howe Institute’s (CDHI) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) since 2003. We find, first, that differences in the median recommendations between the MPC and the GC are persistent but small...

These four lectures on central banking topics were presented in London between September and December 2013. The lectures were delivered as part of Arthur Grimes’ NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professorship, based at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. They followed his...

With Spain’s official unemployment rate at 26 percent, and the economy projected to contract by 1.3 percent this year, it is difficult to make the case for continued austerity that could push a barely growing economy back into recession. Yet the government is committed to further fiscal...

This main objective of this paper is to construct the augmented monetary conditions index (hereafter MCI) over the quarterly period 1982:1-2007:4 using bounds test approach for cointegration analysis. Results reveal evidence of cointegration between the real output (LRGDP) and its determinants...