Every financial crisis leaves behind important lessons, while exposing the limitations of the policy framework for preventing a systemic crisis. The sub-prime crisis has seriously dented the credibility of every institution vested with the responsibility for promoting financial stability....

This paper highlights that an open economy, like Oman, could often enjoy partial monetary policy independence despite operating with a fixed peg, which may appear as a clear violation of the 'macroeconomic trilemma'. While explaining the country-specific factors that create the scope for partial...

The sub-prime lessons have left many unpleasant policy challenges, and the emerging dilemma for the policy-making community is that while there are no easy answers to many of these complex questions, in the absence of clearer policy positions on most of them the financial systems may continue to...