Regulation, Institutions and Commitment
Regulation, Institutions and Commitment

Author: Pablo Tomas Spiller

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 78

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In the past decade the United Kingdom has emerged as a pacesetter for institutional change in the telecommunications sector. Investment in the sector has jumped, despite the uncertainty one might expect from the United Kingdom's inexperience with public utility regulation, from its lack of constitutional protection against governmental and regulatory discretion, and from continuing institutional change.

Assessing Bank Performance and the Impact of Financial Restructuring in a Macro-economic Framework
Assessing Bank Performance and the Impact of Financial Restructuring in a Macro-economic Framework

Author: Yavuz Boray

Publisher:

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 72

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It is crucial to include the macroeconomic environment in any scenario that involves assessing the financial condition of a bank and its future liability. This paper describes the development of a simulation model that permits the user to examine in detail the interaction between a financial system and its economic environment.

Monetary Policy Strategy
Monetary Policy Strategy

Author: Frederic S. Mishkin

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0262134829

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This book by a leading authority on monetary policy offers a unique view of the subject from the perspectives of both scholar and practitioner. Frederic Mishkin is not only an academic expert in the field but also a high-level policymaker. He is especially well positioned to discuss the changes in the conduct of monetary policy in recent years, in particular the turn to inflation targeting. Monetary Policy Strategydescribes his work over the last ten years, offering published papers, new introductory material, and a summing up, "Everything You Wanted to Know about Monetary Policy Strategy, But Were Afraid to Ask," which reflects on what we have learned about monetary policy over the last thirty years. Mishkin blends theory, econometric evidence, and extensive case studies of monetary policy in advanced and emerging market and transition economies. Throughout, his focus is on these key areas: the importance of price stability and a nominal anch fiscal and financial preconditions for achieving price stability; central bank independence as an additional precondition; central bank accountability; the rationale for inflation targeting; the optimal inflation target; central bank transparency and communication; and the role of asset prices in monetary policy.

Principles of Regulatory Policy Design
Principles of Regulatory Policy Design

Author: David Edward Michael Sappington

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Differences in the form, function, and scope of regulatory policies are traced to differences in social institutions, in the characteristics of the industries being regulated, and in the regulators' objectives and resources.