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During the last two and half decades Turkey has suffered from three foreign exchange crises resulting in considerable loss of income. The paper argues that the country in order to avoid the foreign exchange crisis has to stay away from... more
This paper examines whether central banks in Latin America have implemented conventional inflation targeting (IT) prescriptions, with a focus on foreign exchange intervention and official reserves accumulation policies. To this end, the... more
We present a methodology to construct a Broad Financial Stability Indicator (FSIB) based on unobserved common factors and a Specific Financial Stability Indicator (FSIS) for the Brazilian economy combining observed credit, debt and... more
This paper analyzes the extent to which ASEAN may be suitable for a regional monetary arrangement. On the economic front, we review evidence on patterns of trade, economic shocks, the extent of factor mobility, and the monetary... more
On 15 and 16 January 2003, an intensive speculative attack was launched against the exchange rate band of the forint. This study analyses the monetary policy decisions with regard to the antecedents of the speculation, the events of the... more
The aim of this paper is to propose a methodology to stabilize the currency markets by adopting Game Theory. Our idea is to save the Euro from the speculative attacks (due the crisis of the Euro-area States), and this goal is reached by... more
En la integracion global, las ventajas competitivas de un Estado dependen de forma decisiva de la calidad e innovacion de sus regulaciones, administraciones publicas y tribunales independientes. Estas cualidades son las que caracterizan a... more
European Monetary Union experiences the division into two major blocks according to their ability to respect fiscal criteria and replace their bonds on the market. The so-called PIIGS countries are asked to hardly reduce their deficit and... more
We are grateful to Jean-Pierre Allegret, Agnès Bénassy-Quéré, André Cartapanis, Hendrik Hakenes, Philippe Martin, Timofiy Mylovanov and Hyun Shin, as well as two anonymous referees for helpful comments. We also thank Alexander Meyer-Gohde... more
Panico and Purificato argue that before 2007, flaws in the European institutional organization affected the cyclical and growth performance of the euro countries. After that date they contributed to an intensification of the conflicts... more