The financial systems in emerging market economies during the 2008-09 global financial crisis performed much better than in previous crisis episodes, albeit with significant differences across regions. For example, real credit growth in Asia and Latin America was less affected than in Central...

The financial systems in emerging market economies (EMEs) during the 2008-09 global financial crisis performed much better than in previous crisis episodes, albeit with significant differences across regions. For example, real credit growth in Asia and Latin America was less affected than in...

In practice, central banks have been confronted with a trade-off between stabilising inflation and output when dealing with rising oil prices. This contrasts with the result in the standard New Keynesian model that ensuring complete price stability is the optimal thing to do, even when an oil...

Die weltweite Finanzkrise der Jahre 2007-09 beeinträchtigte die Kreditvergabe in Lateinamerika weniger als frühere Krisen. In diesem Feature werden die wichtigsten makroökonomischen Bedingungen vor der jüngsten Krise ermittelt, die dazu beitrugen, dass das reale Kreditvolumen in...