This paper analyses the leader followership in monetary policy coordination in South Africa, together with the Advanced, Developed and Emerging counties. The coordination of monetary policy in Advanced counties is examined in individual countries while such coordination in Developed and Emerging...

This paper analyses the leader followership phenomenon in monetary policy coordination in South Africa, the Advanced counties, Developed counties and Emerging counties. The coordination of monetary policy in Advanced counties is examined in individual countries while such coordination in...

This paper analyses the role of monetary policy in targeting financial stress as opposed to the exchange rate in South Africa. This is achieved by augmenting the central bank's monetary policy reaction function with the composite indicator of financial stress and the nominal bilateral exchange...

This paper analyses the monetary policy reaction function pre and post the recent global financial crisis in South Africa. This is achieved by comparing the reaction of monetary policy to changes in the target variables that comprise the inflation rate, output gap and financial stress index pre...

This paper analyses the role of monetary policy in targeting financial stress as opposed to the exchange rate in South Africa. This is achieved by augmenting the central bank's monetary policy reaction function with the composite indicator of financial stress and the nominal bilateral exchange...

This paper analyses the monetary policy reaction function pre and post the recent global financial crisis in South Africa. This is achieved by comparing the reaction of monetary policy to changes in the target variables that comprise the inflation rate, output gap and financial stress index pre...

Through an estimated and calibrated DSGE model with imperfect competition and nominal rigidities, this work aims to assess the dynamic effects of exogenous perturbations in a small open economy to provide a prescription of a simple monetary policy rule associated with the minimal welfare losses...

This paper compares monetary policy in the US and EMU during the last decade, employing an estimated hybrid New Keynesian cash-in-advance model, driven by five shocks. It appears that the difference between the two monetary policies between 1998 and 2006 is due to both surprises in productivity...

We document the role of independence for Central Bank of Republic of Turkey (CBRT) as it matters to successful implementation of monetary policy. We compare the implementation of monetary policy pre- and post-crisis periods within an empirical framework which allows us to measure the role of...

Macroeconomic practitioners frequently work with multivariate time series models such as VARs, factor augmented VARs as well as time-varying parameter versions of these models (including variants with multivariate stochastic volatility). These models have a large number of parameters and, thus,...