INFLATION, INTEREST RATE AND CREDIT RATE IN INDONESIA

Study of the Relationship between Inflation Rate and Bank Interest Rate in the Iranian Economy

Experts believe that by lowering the interest rate on bank accounts, total cost of goods and services decreases, and secondly, investment production increases,  both of which lead to lower inflation and provide stable employment field, on the other hand, are concerned about the negative effects of lowering the interest rate without lowering inflation and know the underlying requirement of nomin...

Stock interest rate risk and inflation shocks

In this paper we proceed to estimate a measure of the flow-through capability of the firms listed in the Spanish Stock Exchange. The flow-through capability is defined as the ability of firms to transmit inflation shocks to the prices of the products and services sold by the company. According to a strand of literature, this flow-through capability can explain, to some extent, the so called “st...

Interest Rate Risk in Credit Markets

Recent events have stimulated interest in the joint behavior of prices and quantities in credit markets. Data sources such as the Federal Reserve Board’s Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA) provide statistics on a rich set of credit market instruments. However, it is challenging to inter­ pret such data using economic models that speak to the allocation of risk across agents, such as households or int...

Inflation shocks and interest rate rules

Recent empirical evidence by Fair (2002, 2005) and Giordani (2003) shows that a positive inflation shock with the nominal interest rate held constant has contractionary effects. These results cannot be reconciled with the standard ‘New Synthesis’ literature. This paper reconsiders the effects of inflation shocks in a simple New Keynesian framework extended to include wealth effects. It is shown...

Dynamic Interest Rate and Credit Risk Models