Download or read book Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific written by Bank for International Settlements and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bank Indonesia and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a research conference on "Expanding the boundaries of monetary policy in Asia and the Pacific" on 20-21 August 2015 in Jakarta. The event was the wrap-up conference of a research programme of the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific that had been approved by the Asian Consultative Council of central bank Governors in February 2014.The topic was motivated by the increased importance of financial stability in the conduct of monetary policy and the expanding set of monetary policy tools being employed. Within this overall theme, the following issues for the Asia-Pacific region were identified: (i) monetary policy objectives and strategies; (ii) instruments to manage monetary conditions; (iii) the assessment of monetary conditions; and (iv) transmission mechanisms.The conference brought together senior officials and researchers from central banks, international organisations and academia. This volume is a collection of the speeches, papers and prepared discussant remarks from the conference. This foreword summarises the contents of the conference and provides a synopsis of the discussions for time-constrained readers.While the full publication can be downloaded using the above link, individual contributions are available separately:'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2860988' Foreword to: Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861281' The Challenges of Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861309' Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy on House Prices and the Economy'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861329' Maintaining Price and Financial Stability by Monetary and Macroprudential Policy - Evidence from Asia and the Pacific'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861330' A Comparison of Liquidity Management Tools in Seven Asian Economies'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861331' A Spectral Perspective on Natural Interest Rates in Asia-Pacific: Changes and Possible Drivers'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861312' Managing Monetary and Financial Stability in a Dynamic Global Environment: Bank Indonesia's Policy Perspectives'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861491' Monetary Independence in a Financially Integrated World: What Do Measures of Interest Rate Co-Movement Tell Us?'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861493' Financial Globalisation and Monetary Independence.
Download or read book Foreword to written by Frank Packer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bank Indonesia and the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) co-hosted a research conference on “Expanding the boundaries of monetary policy in Asia and the Pacific” on 20-21 August 2015 in Jakarta. The event was the wrap-up conference of a research programme of the BIS Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific that had been approved by the Asian Consultative Council of central bank Governors in February 2014.The topic was motivated by the increased importance of financial stability in the conduct of monetary policy and the expanding set of monetary policy tools being employed. Within this overall theme, the following issues for the Asia-Pacific region were identified: (i) monetary policy objectives and strategies; (ii) instruments to manage monetary conditions; (iii) the assessment of monetary conditions; and (iv) transmission mechanisms.The conference brought together senior officials and researchers from central banks, international organisations and academia. This volume is a collection of the speeches, papers and prepared discussant remarks from the conference. This foreword summarises the contents of the conference and provides a synopsis of the discussions for time-constrained readers.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
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Download or read book The Challenges of Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy written by Agus Martowardojo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening address at the Bank Indonesia-BIS Research Conference: Expanding the boundaries of monetary policy in Asia and the PacificFull Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book Central Banking and Monetary Policy in the Asia Pacific written by Akhand Akhtar Hossain and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strength of this book is that it summarises a vast amount of the modern literature in monetary economics. . . the book provides detailed and clear descriptions of monetary models. . . This comprehensive volume is a useful compendium of the monetary economics literature of the second half of the 20th century, which has to a certain extent been over taken by events. Paul Wachtel, Asian-Pacific Economic Literature This well-researched and finely crafted book is a valuable addition to the literature on monetary policy in developing countries. It explains the concepts and tools of monetary policy in a simple manner and discusses how monetary policy works in developing Asia in a historical context within the framework of an outward-oriented development strategy. I am not aware of any other book that covers the organisational and institutional aspects of major central banks in developing Asia. Prema-chandra Athukorala, Australian National University This book elaborates the key concepts, principles and models of inflation and monetary policy and explains how they remain relevant and useful to the design and conduct of monetary policy in developing Asia. In this rapidly growing region, price stability remains important and therefore monetary policy has gained increasing importance. Even while emphasising the importance of the classical approach, the book discusses alternative frameworks and points out areas where a consensus is emerging. The review of the literature is extensive and careful. Along with developing this theme, the book reviews the structure and governance of most central banks in the Asia-Pacific and discusses how they conduct monetary policy to achieve price stability under different monetary policy frameworks. The book fills a gap in the central banking and monetary policy literature and has no close competitors. It should be useful to both students and policymakers in developing Asia. Salim Rashid, University of Illinois, US The 1997 East Asia crisis exposed many economic policy weaknesses in the Asia-Pacific region. In his latest book, Dr Hossain provides students with a refreshing up-to-date reference text on the concepts and principles of money, banking and finance in developing countries which differ in many ways to monetary institutions and practices in developed countries, which conventional monetary textbooks focus on. I thoroughly recommend it. A.P. Thirlwall, University of Kent, UK This timely book reviews the modern literature on inflation and monetary policy, and highlights contemporary issues in the design and conduct of monetary policy for price stability in developing Asia. Akhand Akhtar Hossain surveys the evolution of central banking and provides an introduction to the structure, function and governance of central banks in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific. The author also examines the major theories, models and approaches to inflation and monetary policy, and evaluates monetary policy regimes in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific in a historical context. This eloquent and comprehensible book will prove to be invaluable to undergraduate students on monetary theory and policy as well as banking and financial courses. Researchers exploring monetary policy concepts, principles and case studies will warmly welcome this book, as will policy-makers who have an interest in macroeconomics, monetary and financial policies.
Download or read book Maintaining Price and Financial Stability by Monetary and Macroprudential Policy Evidence from Asia and the Pacific written by Soyoung Kim and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Financial Crisis of 2008-09 led many central banks to adopt explicit financial stability objectives. This raises the question of how central banks deal with the policy trade-offs resulting from potential conflicts between price and financial stability objectives. This paper presents some results from ongoing research investigating this issue for inflation targeting central banks in the Asia-Pacific region (Kim and Mehrotra (2015), (2016a) and (2016b)). We show that macroprudential policies to safeguard financial stability have also had a significant impact on inflation, potentially creating challenges for policymakers given the frequency of episodes during which low inflation has coincided with buoyant credit growth.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy on House Prices and the Economy written by John C. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keynote speech: Measuring the Effects of Monetary Policy on House Prices and the EconomyFull Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book The Evolution of Central Banking and Monetary Policy in the Asia Pacific written by Akhand Akhtar Hossain and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of case studies is a significant contribution to monetary macroeconomics in which country-specific experience and issues in inflation and monetary policy are reviewed and analysed in an historical context. In doing so, the key ideas and views
Download or read book A Spectral Perspective on Natural Interest Rates in Asia Pacific written by Feng Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I study the evolution of the equilibrium real interest rate, also known as the natural or neutral interest rate, in Asia-Pacific. Simple estimates based on a statistical approach suggest that, except for China, and Thailand since 2005, the natural interest rate may have declined substantially in Asia-Pacific economies since the early or mid-1990s, by over 4 percentage points on average. In many economies the rate has turned negative. The tendency has become more accentuated in the 2000s, especially following the onset of the Global Financial Crisis. The natural interest rate appears to vary significantly over time and across economies. Nevertheless, simple natural interest rate estimates are unreliable, and large uncertainties and sizeable heterogeneity in the estimates of the equilibrium real interest rate call for caution as well as monetary policy rules which are robust to such uncertainties. I use frequency-domain techniques to examine the relationship between the long-run component of real interest rate and those of population characteristics, globalisation, and a range of macroeconomic and financial variables (eg credit and asset prices). I estimate spectral and cospectral densities, coherency and the frequency-specific coefficients of correlation and regression proposed by Zhu (2005). The association seems to be broad and strong between the natural interest rate and the low-frequency trend components of demographic and global factors in AsiaPacific, but weak between the natural interest rate and trends in asset prices, creditto-GDP ratio and trend growth in many economies in the region. In most cases, the natural interest rate seems to be correlated with broad measures of long-term financial sector development, and trends in savings rate and investment ratio. Understanding the underlying factors driving changes in each economy's natural interest rate is important for the correct calibration and implementation of monetary policy.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book Comments On A Spectral Perspective on Natural Interest Rates in Asia Pacific written by Solikin M. Juhro and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feng Zhu (2015) has delivered sound research on the equilibrium real interest rate and its implication for monetary policy in Asia-Pacific countries. I fully concur that the use of the natural interest rate framework to implement monetary policy poses many risks, given the numerous uncertainties surrounding natural rates. However, we should not only consider the precision of estimation but we should also seek to understand how different factors in different situations influence the equilibrium real interest rate and why this is important for monetary policy formulation. Here, I see some room for enhancement that should be incorporated in the paper. My suggestion is that the paper could discuss a broader scope of the monetary policy domain, especially in the post-GFC era, such as the trade-off between internal-external balances, the role of the exchange rate as well as risk perception/behaviour that could potentially impact the equilibrium real interest rate lift-off, as in the case of Indonesia, Malaysia, and some other emerging countries. This would provide a more rigorous assessment of the strategic role of interest rate policy and thus the practical relevance of equilibrium real interest rates in monetary policy formulation.Given the practical usefulness of equilibrium real interest rates, I generally support the arguments proffered by Orphanides and Williams (2002) that recommend against relying excessively on these intrinsically noisy indicators when making monetary policy decisions, and Hamilton et al (2015) who inject more inertia into the monetary policy reaction function. To conclude the discussion on this issue and anchor the theme of the conference, namely “expanding the boundaries of monetary policy”, we should put a proper weight on interest rate policy along with other instruments under a credible central bank policy mix strategy. This implies that the equilibrium real interest rate estimation should not statistically stand alone, since the determination of equilibrium real interest rates should be consistent with the macroeconomic balance and the related policy mix response. Consequently, while there is no guarantee that structural estimates would fare better, I would prefer to address the issue using a structural approach.
Download or read book Effects of Monetary and Macroprudential Policies on Financial Conditions written by Ms.Aleksandra Zdzienicka and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Financial Crisis has reopened discussions on the role of the monetary policy in preserving financial stability. Determining whether monetary policy affects financial variables domestically—especially compared to the effects of macroprudential policies— and across borders, is crucial in this context. This paper looks into these issues using U.S. exogenous monetary policy shocks and macroprudential policy measures. Estimates indicate that monetary policy shocks have significant and persistent effects on financial conditions and can attenuate long-term financial instability. In contrast, the impact of macroprudential policy measures is generally more immediate but shorter-lasting. Also, while an exogenous increase in U.S. monetary policy rates tends to reduce credit and house prices in other countries—with the effects varying with country-specific characteristics—an increase driven by improved U.S. economic conditions tends to have the opposite effect. Finally, we do not find evidence of cross-border spillover effects associated with U.S. macroprudential policies.
Download or read book Monetary Policy in India written by Chetan Ghate and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents research that applies contemporary monetary theory and state-of-the-art econometric methods to the analysis of the monetary and financial aspects of the Indian economy and the impact of monetary policy on economic performance. Indian monetary policy has attracted significant attention from Indian and international macroeconomists over the last several years. Interest in how monetary policy influences economic performance and how monetary policy is conducted in India is growing. The prospects for further financial sector reform and ongoing inflation in India have sparked new interest in the role of money and monetary policy in India among economists, policy makers and students alike. The book should also interest economists outside India because it studies monetary economics in a major emerging market economy and makes advances in the analysis of how financial market imperfections and structural constraints influence the effects of monetary policy.
Download or read book Financial Globalisation and Monetary Independence written by Piti Disyatat and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has financial globalisation compromised central banks' ability to manage domestic financial conditions? This paper summarises the results from our recent research, which tackles this question from the bond market perspective for both advanced and emerging market economies. Using an asset pricing framework, we isolate co-movements of bond return risk premia unrelated to economic fundamentals to identify spillovers driven by exogenous global shifts in risk preference or appetite. Based on co-movements in bond yields, the analysis reaches several conclusions that run counter to popular presumptions. In particular, emerging market economies appear less susceptible to external financial conditions than advanced economies.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book Managing Monetary and Financial Stability in a Dynamic Global Environment written by Juda Agung and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the Indonesian economy is becoming progressively more integrated with the global economy, the impact of global economic shocks on the domestic economy is becoming more pronounced. Capital inflows, which trigger excessive liquidity and exacerbate the risk of a sudden reversal, pose a serious threat to the Indonesian economy, especially in terms of financial stability. Recent crisis episodes have indicated that monetary policy alone is insufficient to maintain macroeconomic stability; it should be accompanied by macroprudential policy. This paper explores the dynamics of the external and financial sectors as well as the optimal policy mix in order to maintain monetary and financial stability. We use an enhanced or modified small open-economy New Keynesian model to discuss the operation of a flexible inflation targeting framework (ITF). The simulations show that the model's impulse response functions are in line with theoretical and empirical predictions, in which external shocks have significant impacts on both monetary and financial stability. The simulations also show that the adverse macroeconomic and financial effects of external shocks can be mitigated by a mix of monetary and macroprudential policies.Full Publication: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2861007' Expanding the Boundaries of Monetary Policy in Asia and the Pacific.
Download or read book Shock Values written by Carola Binder and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How inflation fears shaped American society, then and now. For most of its history, the United States has benefited from price stability-a steady relationship between supply and demand, characterized by prices that don't inflate or deflate in unpredictable fashion. Across these long stretches, the US economy became famously free-market: prices did the job of stabilizing the economy so the government didn't have to. In this sweeping and revelatory history of American economy and democracy, Carola Conces Binder shows that American price-stability is no accident. From its colonial origins to today, the American state has been designed for, and continues to be shaped by, an unlimited effort to insulate the economy from the dangers of price fluctuations. Binder narrates an American history in which inflationary anxiety has informed everything from the reluctant establishment of paper money to the rise of the modern Federal Reserve as an omniscient actor in public policy. At every step, and with each historical brush with monetary instability, the US has been reinvented as a response to its most recent failings. Shock Values is the epochal history of the US as a monetary state. Binder recounts both the monetary interests at the dawn of the Republic; its decades-long experiments with price controls; the outsize role of agriculture and industry in its monetary apparatus; and how the rise of the all-powerful Federal Reserve was born out of crisis more than anything else. Expansive and erudite, Shock Values is a watershed telling of an old history: how American union's pledge to be more perfect was drawn along monetary lines. It is not to be missed"--
Download or read book International Macroeconomics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis written by Laurent Ferrara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collects selected articles addressing several currently debated issues in the field of international macroeconomics. They focus on the role of the central banks in the debate on how to come to terms with the long-term decline in productivity growth, insufficient aggregate demand, high economic uncertainty and growing inequalities following the global financial crisis. Central banks are of considerable importance in this debate since understanding the sluggishness of the recovery process as well as its implications for the natural interest rate are key to assessing output gaps and the monetary policy stance. The authors argue that a more dynamic domestic and external aggregate demand helps to raise the inflation rate, easing the constraint deriving from the zero lower bound and allowing monetary policy to depart from its current ultra-accommodative position. Beyond macroeconomic factors, the book also discusses a supportive financial environment as a precondition for the rebound of global economic activity, stressing that understanding capital flows is a prerequisite for economic-policy decisions.
Download or read book The Financial Inclusion Landscape in the Asia Pacific Region A Dozen Key Findings written by Mrs.Sarwat Jahan and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-04-19 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Financial inclusion is a multidimensional concept and countries have chosen diverse methods of enhancing financial inclusion with varying degrees of results. The heterogeneity of financial inclusion is particularly striking in the Asia-Pacific region as member countries range from those that are at the cutting edge of financial technology to others that are aiming to provide access to basic financial services. The wide disparity is not only inter-country but also intra-country. The focus of this paper is to take stock of the current state of financial inclusion in the Asia-Pacific region by highlighting twelve stylized facts about the state of financial inclusion in these countries. The paper finds that the state of financial inclusion depends on several factors, but a holistic approach calibrated to specific country conditions may lead to greater financial inclusion.
