This week’s Alpha Trader podcast features hosts Aaron Task and Stephen Alpher talking with Mark Dow, author of the Behavioral Macro Blog, and a former hedge fund manager. Among the topics covered: The ...

Over the years the responsibility of stabilization policy have increasingly been place on the shoulders of central banks. However, for central banks to deliver on this mandate their monetary policy ...

Changing the prime interest benchmark may alter optics and signalling, but it will not reduce borrowing costs in any durable way, writes Stuart Theobald.

Over the past year, the Federal Reserve (the Fed) has encountered difficulties convincing financial markets of its intention to sustain a tight monetary policy until the battle against inflation is ...

South African banking customers have been paying a prime rate of the repo rate plus 3.5% since 2001. Is it time for a change?

The stickiness of bank lending rates with respect to money market rates is often regarded as an obstacle to the smooth transmission of monetary policy impulses. Yet, no systematic measure of the ...

A threshold Bayesian VAR model is applied to study nonlinearities in Romania’s monetary policy transmission mechanism, with the transition variable represented by the Economic Sentiment Indicator. The ...

ISTANBUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Turkish central bank said on Thursday that will continue to further strengthen the tools supporting the effectiveness of the monetary transmission mechanism. It said this ...

This paper estimates the neutral interest rate in the Kyrgyz Republic using a range of methodologies. Results indicate that the real neutral rate is about 4 percent based on an average of models and 3 ...

Dubai: Credit growth in the Eurozone remains tight as loan expansion remains curtailed and this could result in the slowing consumer price inflation morphing into deflation, Jean-Michel Six, the Paris ...