National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia (NBRM) has been implementing an exchange rate targeting strategy for a more then a decade and so far it proved to be very successful. The aim of this paper is shortly to explain the advantages of this strategy and moreover to put more focus on the...

Macroeconomists have been concerned with the structure of business cycle fluctuations and their sources for a long time. In a highly integrated and globalized world, the study of co-movement, or integration, is important because the results of the study on emerging countries could help...

This paper analyses the effects of loan supply, as well as aggregate demand, aggregate supply and monetary policy shocks between 1998 and 2014 in Macedonia using a structural Vector Auto Regression with sign restrictions and Bayesian estimation. The main results indicate that loan supply shocks...