Année : 2014

Inflation-Targeting and Foreign Exchange Interventions in Emerging Economies

Mardi | 2014-01-21 salle des thèses Marc POURROY Are emerging economies implementing inflation targeting (IT) with a perfectly flexible exchange-rate arrangement, as developed economies do, or have these countries developed their own IT framework? This paper offers a new method for assessing exchange-rate policies that combines the use of “indicator countries”, providing an empirical definition of exchange-rate flexibility or rigidity, and clustering through Gaussian mixture estimates in order to identify countries’ de facto regimes. By applying this method to 19 […]

Monetary Policy and Financial Stability Objectives: in Search of Trade-offs

Mercredi | 2014-01-15 B103 Armand FOUEJIEU AZANGUE – Alexandra POPESCU – Patrick VILLIEU The concern for fi nancial stability has gained increasing interest for monetary policy making. In the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, it has been argued that monetary policy should prevent or dampen raising fi nancial risk by responding actively to fi nancial imbalances. This paper investigates the extent to which central bank’s reaction to fi nancial instability may be incompatible with its other macroeconomic stability […]