The study examines the influence of the repo rate on the interbank rate and analyses whether the transmission channels of interest rates have changed since the adjustment to the repo system in September 2001. The paper employs the Granger causality test using the ECM framework. The results...

This book is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive analysis of the key issues and challenges facing regional currency area projects in the context of financial globalization. The authors focus on several central issues that emerged during the experiences of the 1990s and 2000s: exchange...

This paper studies the optimal monetary organization from a social point of view in a model with three players (the central bank, the government, the private sector), and in particular the reasons leading to people to entrust monetary policy to a central banker who weights inflation deviations...

This note explores the link between the effort level to strengthen institutional quality and the nature of the fiscal policy game among interdependent economies plagued by corruption. Every country has a lower incentive to improve public governance when the effort made abroad to remedy...

[fre] Même s'il n'existe aucun problème d'incohérence temporelle, les États membres d'une union monétaire ont intérêt à nommer un gouverneur qui ne partage pas leurs préférences, en raison des externalités des politiques budgétaires. La modification volontaire de l'arbitrage...

In a monetary union, the incentives of national authorities to misrepresent their true preferences still exist in the absence of time inconsistency issues. With fiscal spillovers among countries, delegating the control of monetary policy to a central banker with a different output-inflation...

The paper deals with monetary and fiscal policy strategic interactions between the European Union and the rest of the world. We use a three-country Mundell-Fleming model to analyze the policy-makers?' responses to a negative global productivity shock. The results obtained in a fully...

This note explores the link between the effort level to strengthen institutional quality and the nature of the fiscal policy game among interdependent economies plagued by corruption. Every country has a lower incentive to improve public governance when the effort made abroad to remedy...

Corruption can enhance welfare in two complementary ways in a dynamic time inconsistency model: first, by mitigating the inflation bias of discretionary monetary policy; second, by reducing the loss due to the suboptimal distribution of distortions associated with public debt accumulation. The...