Author/Editor: Tushar Poddar, Mangal Goswami, Juan Sole, Victor Echévarria Icaza.

Release Date:April, 2006

This paper seeks to understand how interest rates are formed in Lebanon, by focusing on the pass-through from benchmark rates, prevailing liquidity conditions, and the main characteristics of the more...

Author/Editor: Tushar Poddar, Hasmik Khachatryan, Randa Sab.

Release Date:February, 2006

This paper examines monetary transmission in Jordan using the vector autoregressive approach. We find that the real 3-month CD rate, the Central Bank's operating target, affects bank retail rates and more...

Author/Editor: Tushar Poddar.

Release Date:September, 2004

India's exports nearly tripled in the 1990s. Decomposing export growth shows that it has been driven by incumbent firms rather than the entry of new firms. By using a new panel on Indian firms and more...