Financial Markets and Monetary and Financial Conditions

Financial markets and systems play a key role in resource allocation. Recent work has studied how legal and regulatory framework conditions for financial systems support innovation and investment and thus growth. Other work is studying financial market integration in the euro area.
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Quantifying the effect of financial conditions on US activity

15-Sep-2008

This paper constructs a broad measure of financial conditions for the United States which suggests that since the onset of the credit crisis there has been a marked tightening in financial conditions, despite a substantial easing of policy rates and a depreciation of the dollar.

Have long-term financial trends changed the transmission of monetary policy?

08-Sep-2008

This paper addresses the question of whether and how long-term financial trends may have modified the transmission mechanism from monetary policy decisions to economic activity. The focus is on long-term changes, abstracting from the disruptions created by the 2007-08 financial turmoil which are temporarily affecting the transmission mechanism.

OECD Economic Survey of Turkey

17-Jul-2008

Turkey should adopt tougher fiscal rules and reform its labour market to boost its economic performance, according to this new OECD report.

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