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This study aims to analyze the role of monetary policy, including the spillover of the US Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy, in the existence of herding behavior in the Indonesian stock market. We used beta herding to measure the level of herding behavior and analyze the relationship between monetary policy and beta herding using the VECM model, as well as IRF and FEVD. This study shows that monetary policy plays a role in the existence of herding behavior in the Indonesian stock market. Although the effect of monetary policy on herding behavior is relatively small, Fed monetary policy shocks have a greater effect on the existence of herding behavior in the Indonesian stock market. The credibility of Bank Indonesia (BI) and the Fed may play a role in shaping investors' expectations. Therefore, policymakers have to take into account the volatility of asset prices in formulating monetary policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research examines the relationship between financial development and inflation in Indonesia during the period of 1980 to 2016. In order to do that, it uses autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bound test to investigate the existence of long-run cointegration and Wald test to examine both short- and long-run Granger causality. Three different proxies are used to measure financial development; credit to private sector as a percentage of GDP, broad money (M2) as a percentage as GDP, and Financial Development Index. It is found, from empirical results, that long-run cointegration exists between financial development and inflation. It is also found that past value of both variables causes the future value of each other, but through different channels. Lastly, while inflation affects financial development negatively, financial development affects inflation positively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]