The ‘New Consensus’, around independent central banks and the use of short-term interest rates as the key instrument of monetary policy, by no means exhausts the range of modern central bank activities or the issues that financial markets pose for the newly consensual monetary...

The aim of this UACES study group is to analyse a specific set of macroeconomic policies in selected Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU Enlargement process. Specifically, the aim is to concentrate on the major CIS (Community of Independent States) countries: Belarus,...