2.) Interest Rate Channel
An increasing integration of the world’s financial system has resulted in a growing degree of interest rate linkages at home and abroad, thus lessening to some extent the effectiveness of (หน้า9) monetary policy. As response to this, the monetary authorities have placed increasing emphasis on the use of the market-based instruments to deal with the effects of capital inflows. In addition, there is evidence indicating that, following the financial liberalization, the private sector has become more highly-leveraged, thus tending to enhance the effectiveness of monetary policy conducted through the interest rate channel.