This paper assesses how globalisation has shaped the economic environment in which the ECB operates and discusses whether this warrants adjustments to the monetary policy strategy. The paper first looks at how trade and financial integration have evolved since the last strategy review in 2003....

The aim of the paper is to analyse the disinflationary process in Hungary which took place in the second half of the 1990s. After the implementation of the so-called "Bokros" austerity package in early 1995, a crawling peg exchange rate regime has been adopted by the Hungarian authorities. We...

The aim of the paper is to analyse the disinflationary process in Hungary which took place in the second half of the 1990s. After the implementation of the so-called "Bokros" austerity package in early 1995, a crawling peg exchange rate regime has been adopted by the Hungarian authorities. We...

This paper analyses the interest rate pass-through for five economies of the Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) specification to monthly data, we find that the interest rate pass-through is systematically...