The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in The United Kingdom: Pass-Through & Policy Ru

A number of recent papers have used policy simulations from small empirical macro models to assess the efficacy of inflation-forecast targeting. The macro models used to undertake the simulations differ significantly with the assumed degree of openness, an important factor for the analysis. However, the open economy models typically approach the pass-through from exchange rate to import prices and ultimately retail prices in a stylized manner, assuming full and instantaneous pass-through. This paper modifies the open economy macro model presented in Batini and Haldane (1999) to accommodate a variety of pass-through representations, considering time and state-(cycle)-dependent pass-through rules. While the model’s dynamics are affected, the main result of Batini and Haldane – that targeting an inflation forecast dominates targeting current inflation – is robust to the assumed rate of pass-through.

South African collective investment scheme performance fees

Includes bibliographical references.This paper is an analysis of the South African Collective Investment Schemes (CIS) performance fee structure. The paper looks at the methods used in the calculation of performance fees and provides a detailed breakdown of their implementation in the South African CIS industry. With the aim to show and explain the various performance fee structures that are currently in place in the South African CIS market and then to highlight differences in structures between so-called "similar funds"

Bail-Out or Work-Out? Theoretical Considerations

In recent years, we appear to have entered an era of capital account crises. In response, a number of new crisis resolution ideas have been put forward, including the establishment of supranational institutions such as an international lender of last resort or an international bankruptcy court, temporary payments standstills and the inclusion of collective action clauses in debt contracts. This paper assesses these proposals using a theoretical model of crisis. The model underscores the importance of adapting policy interventions to the nature of the crisis at hand. For example, it finds that payments standstills and last-resort lending are an equally efficient means of dealing with liquidity crises, both ex-ante and ex-post, while creditor committees are second-best. It finds that debt-write-downs are a preferred means of dealing with solvency crises than subsidized IMF financing because of the negative moral hazard implications of the latter tool. And it finds that international bankruptcy court proposals may be superior to contractual approaches in securing such write-downscrisis resolution, international lender of last resort, standstills, IMF

La pregunta de los 100 mil millones

This article examines the costs of banking pollution and the role of regulation and restrictions on the financial system in tackling it. It studies the benefits of such restrictions in terms of modularity, robustness and incentives, and the costs in terms of the economies of scale and the economies of scope that are exhausted at relatively modest levelfinancial crisis, systemic risk

The Dog and the Frisbee

Speech by Mr. Andrew G. Haldane, Executive Director, Financial Stability, Bank of England and Mr Vasileios Madouros, Economist, Bank of England, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City\u27s 366th Economic Policy Symposium, The Changing Policy Landscape, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 31, 201

La pregunta de los 100 mil millones

Este artículo examina los costos de la contaminación bancaria y el papel de la regulación y las restricciones que tiene el sistema financiero para afrontarla. Estudia los beneficios de las restricciones en términos de modularidad, robustez e incentivos, y los costos en términos de las economías de escala y de las economías de alcance, que se agotan a niveles relativamente modestos

Operationalising a macroprudential regime: goals, tools and open issues

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Volatility transmission along the money market yield curve

In this paper we look to model the volatility of money market interest rates -and the transmission of volatility- along the money market yield curve in four countries: the UK, Germany, France and Spain. We use a conditional variance specification which is based on Nelson's Exponential ARCH. We find a significant volatility transmission effect from overnight to longer term money markets for France, Spain and the UK. We also find that, in our small cross section of countries, those with lower (higher) reserve requirements tend to have higher (lower) interbank interest rate volatility. However, reserve requirements generate a perverse seasonal effect: at the end of the maintenance period, both the level of the overnight interest rate volatility and the magnitude of the transmission effect to the rest of the yield curve are higher. References.(jah)(agh)(frl)(jha