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EM Asia has seen a transformation of its monetary policy environment over the past 2 decades. By far, the most relevant … particularly relevant in EM Asia. While managed exchange rate regimes in EM Asia have been implemented with mixed success, the …-pillar monetary policy approach as a potentially attractive alternative for EM Asia. The three pillars are based on economic …
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This paper studies the interaction between monetary policy and macroeconomic stability in a model with two distinguishing features. First, financing - cash flows - underpins all economic activity, with banks generating deposits by granting loans. Money is non-neutral as the policy interest rate...
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Experience from financial crises and central bank policies in the past decade has led to an intensified debate about the relationship between monetary policy and financial stability. Since there is no established theoretical framework for analysing the links between financial stability and...
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In a financial system where balance sheets are continuously marked to market, asset price changes show up immediately in changes in net worth, and elicit responses from financial intermediaries, who adjust the size of their balance sheets. We document evidence that marked to market leverage is...
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over to Asia mainly through low domestic bond yields and rapid growth of domestic bank credit. Financial integration does …
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Just as monetary policy at the strategic level has undergone significant changes over the years, so has its day-to-day implementation. This paper documents the key features of 17 central banks' monetary operating frameworks as of early 2007 and discusses their major developments over the...
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On 18-19 June 2004, the BIS held a conference on "Understanding Low Inflation and Deflation". This event brought together central bankers, academics and market practitioners to exchange views on this issue (see the conference programme in this document). This paper was presented at the workshop....
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quantity theory, and their policy prescription of price stability supported by lender of last resort activities in the event of …, particularly Austrian theory, which stressed the banking system's capacity to generate relative price distortions and forced saving …. This theory was discredited by its association with nihilistic policy prescriptions during the Great Depression …
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This paper examines whether monetary policy reaction function matters for financial stability. We measure how responsive the Federal Reserve's policy appears to be to imbalances in the equity, housing and credit markets. We find that changes in these policy sensitivities predict the later...
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This note provides an overview of Thailand's macroprudential framework. While the Bank of Thailand (BOT) takes the lead role in safeguarding financial stability, it works in close coordination with two other regulators, namely the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Office of Insurance...
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