The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility relationship that exists between emerging and developed markets in normal times and in times of financial crises. The Vector Autoregressive methodology and the Bai and Perron (2003a,b)’s technique are used. The paper results lead to very...

This paper aims at comparing the effects of financial liberalization on emerging stock markets' volatility at normal times to the ones in periods of financial crises. To this purpose, a treatment effects model for 13 emerging economies is estimated over January 1986 to December 2008. Three types...

This article aims to determine the impact of financial liberalization on the informational efficiency in emerging stock markets. For this purpose, we estimate a time-varying parameter model combined with structural change technique for 13 emerging economies from January 1986 to December 2008....

The objective of this paper is to explore the feasibility and efficiency of inflation targeting as a new monetary strategy in Morocco. Inflation targeting (IT) is a strategy that aims primarily at controlling inflation and makes it its main objective, but it goes well beyond the simple adoption...

This paper investigates whether there are differential effects of monetary policy across bank size, liquidity and capitalization in some selected MENA countries namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia, to test for the presence of the bank lending channel. It uses a panel of bank balance sheet...

Understanding the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, especially the time lag involved between a policy change and its impact on inflation and output, constitutes a prerequisite to the implementation of any sound monetary strategy. The uncertainties that might surround the transmission...

Relatively little empirical evidence is available that estimates the relationship between asset price movements and monetary policy measures. This paper, which is the first study that focuses on the linkage between monetary policy and stock market prices, aims at analyzing the interaction...

Can the Moroccan and the Tunisian financial systems withstand the consequences of adopting IT, and is IT the appropriate monetary policy for them? There are many crucial requirements for the success of IT including independence of the central bank, fiscal discipline, a flexible exchange rate,...

This paper investigates whether or not there are differential effects of monetary policy across bank characteristics in some selected MENA countries namely Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia, to test for the presence of the bank lending channel (BLC). It uses a panel of micro bank balance sheet...