Research
Measuring financial stability
Difficulties in measuring financial stability should not delay the implementation of an operational framework, research published by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) argues.
On how credit ratings are used
A report by the Joint Forum has uncovered several trends in the use of credit ratings by the official sector.
The equity premium and the volatility spread
The spread between historical and risk-neutral volatilities is seen as a function of the risk premium and of skewness by researchers at the Bank of Canada.
Trade spillovers hit Baltics most
Trade channels dominate the transmission of cross-border spillovers to the Baltic States, a new paper from the International Monetary Fund reveals.
Efficient payment systems boost intermediation
Efficient payment systems increase financial intermediation and the availability of credit, new research from the Bank of England posits.
Inflation-targeting central banks communicate more
Central banks operating under inflation-targeting frameworks tend to provide more information than entities operating under other frameworks, a new paper from the Bank for International Settlements reveals.
Chaps can cope with payments outages
If a financial institution is unable to make - but able to receive - payments, Chaps, the UK's large-value payment system, will ensure that settlement banks stop making payments to the institution, reducing systemic risk, new research from the Bank of…
Generalised Taylor rule holds
The generalised Taylor principle is alive and well, new research from the Kansas City Federal Reserve posits.
Dornbusch was right
Dornbusch's exchange rate overshooting hypothesis holds, new research from the Norges Bank reveals.
Price-level targeting better than IT
Moving to price-level targeting from inflation targeting is welfare enhancing when imperfect credibility is short-lived, a new paper from the Bank of Canada posits.
Institutions matter in financial development
The gap in financial development between the countries of the CFA franc zone and the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa can be explained by differences in institutional quality, new research from the International Monetary Fund reveals.
Consumption related to the state of the economy
Consumption is proportional to a target wealth with the marginal propensity to consume depending on the state of the macroeconomy, new research from the St Louis Federal Reserve reveals.
Fed's governance structure should be revisited
The conventional model of central bank independence may need to be revisited given the unprecedented expansion of the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, new research from the International Monetary Fund notes.
Southern and Western US districts to thrive
Southern and Western Federal Reserve districts will show the strongest growth in the post-crisis expansion, new research from the Kansas City Fed posits.
Markets discipline governments
Markets are exerting pressure on governments to improve the state of public finances and restore competitiveness, a new paper from the International Monetary Fund reveals.
CDS auctions improve settlement efficiency
Credit default swap (CDS) auctions have the potential to enhance the efficiency of settlement, new research from the New York Federal Reserve reveals.
Labour models with best fit
Labour models with wage stickiness and right-to-manage bargaining or with firm-specific labour deliver the best fit, a new paper from the European Central Bank posits.
Bank of Canada - Spring Review
The Spring issue of the Bank of Canada Review considers changes to the country's inflation-targeting framework.
Debt discharge no guarantee for a clean start
Debt discharges fail to generate a fresh start as intended by the law, new research from the Federal Reserve Board posits.
Spillovers to emerging markets still a reality
The current global financial crisis shows that the notion of possible decoupling of financial markets in developed and emerging economies has been misplaced, a new paper from the International Monetary Fund posits.
Time-varying parameter-Var model a good fit
The time-varying parameter vector autoregressive model best describes Japanese economic data, new research from the Bank of Japan shows.
Strong policy responses shorten crises
Strong policy responses have a marked impact on the duration of crises, a new study from the International Monetary Fund posits.
Foreclosure policy should focus on unemployed
Foreclosure-reduction policy should focus on helping people who lose their jobs, new research from the Atlanta Federal Reserve suggests.
Reasons for sluggish Japanese wages uncovered
Research published by the International Monetary Fund suggests that there are two reasons why Japanese wages have risen at a slower rate than remuneration in other rich countries.