Thus, at the onset of the current crisis, the financial regulatory system had accommodated the growth of capital market alternatives to traditional financing by relaxing some restrictions  BIS Review 70/2009  3  on bank activities and virtually all restrictions on affiliations between banks and non-bank financial firms.
For these reasons, it is, therefore, desirable that we move towards developing a Producer Price Index (PPI) that measures the average change over time in the sale prices of domestic goods and services. (ii)  Issues relating to expenditure side GDP estimates  35. For the purpose of monetary policy, it is important to assess aggregate demand conditions by studying the GDP data.