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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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I compare the utility of individuals in an economy with and without banks. To make the comparison interesting, the economy without banks has cashin-advance money that the individuals use for consumption and for precautionary (emergency) purposes and that firms use to pay their wage bill. In…
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The unfolding of the 2007 world financial and economic crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of real economic activity to strong fluctuations in asset prices. Which is the optimal monetary policy in an economy like the Colombian that is exposed to swings in asset prices? What is the implication…
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This paper investigates the role of monetary policy in a small open economy, where exchange rate shocks are important. VAR models are estimated for the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. Contemporaneous and sign restrictions are imposed in order to identify the effect of monetary policy and risk…
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This paper uses Colombian household survey data collected over the 1984-2005 period to estimate Gini coefficients and their corresponding standard errors. We find a statistically significant increase in wage income inequality following the adoption of the liberalization measures during the early…
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In this paper we explore the contribution that asset prices appear to make to fluctuations in the economy and to inflation, and hence to monetary policy, using a large international panel for the 1970–2008 period. We show that house prices are important in the determination of economic activity,…
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This paper investigates the role of domestic and external factors in explaining business cycle and international trade developments in fifteen emerging market economies. Results from sign-restricted VARs show that developments in real output, inflation and international trade variables are…
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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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Theory-consistent models have to be kept small to be tractable. If they are to forecast well, they have to condition on data that are unmodelled, noisy, patchy and about the future. Agents can also use these data to form their own expectations. In this paper we illustrate a scheme for jointly…
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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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The aim of this report is to present the Bank’s appreciation of the development of the financial system and implications for its stability. Furthermore, it is hoped that this publication will create a space for stimulating discussion of themes related to the development and long-term stability of…
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This paper looks at the question of central bank mandate and design in a larger historical context with the goal of understanding the rationale for the design of the European Central Bank (ECB), and also of developing a better understanding of how central banks will evolve over the next few decades…
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