This study empirically investigates the impact of Inflation Targeting (IT) on nominal interest rates over the past 40 years, focusing on 10 advanced and emerging economies. By using a Binary Regime Model embedded within a Backward-Looking Taylor, our findings confirm that IT adoption has...

This paper examines the transition from LIBOR to SOFR in the US and maps out the consequences for European corporate treasurers by showing how the application of SOFR in cash products and derivatives differs from LIBOR. As interest rate and cross-currency swaps transition to compounded SOFR,...

This paper analyzes the dynamics of Canadian dollar-denominated (CAD) interest rate swap yields. It applies autoregressive distributive lag (ARDL) models, using monthly time series data, to estimate the effects of the current short-term interest rate and other relevant macro-financial variables...

We study the market-perceived monetary policy rule of the Bank of England (BoE) using financial market data and macroeconomic surprises. Leveraging exogenous variations in inflation and industrial production (IP) surprises around Office for National Statistics releases, we estimate gilt yield...

This paper revisits the "one-size-fits-all" challenge posed by the European Central Bank's (ECB) monetary policy within the heterogeneous economic landscape of the euro area. Using a dataset spanning from 1999Q1 to 2019Q4 for the ECB interest rate and from 2004Q4 onwards for the Wu-Xia shadow...