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IMF develops stress test for central bank balance sheets
Staff at the International Monetary Fund have developed a new framework to allow central banks to stress-test their balance ...
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Turkey makes 250bp cut
Turkey’s central bank cut its policy rate by 250 basis points to 47.5% on December 26.
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Distributions allow better state-level forecasts – RBI paper
In the working paper, published on December 31, Purnima Shaw and RK Sinha employ a technique developed by Sinha in a previous ...
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Unfunded fiscal spending leads to lower real rates – research
Government spending programmes that are not backed by future fiscal adjustments generate a reduction in real interest rates ...
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Government loyalist deemed ineligible for BoT chairmanship
The Council of State decided that Kittiratt na Ranong was ineligible to take the senior post at the Bank of Thailand (BoT) ...
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Syria appoints new central bank chief after regime change
Syria’s transitional government has appointed Maysaa Sabreen as the interim governor of the country’s central bank, making her the first woman to lead the institution since its foundation in 1953.