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Ranking, Risk-Taking and Effort : An Analysis of the ECB's Foreign Reserves Management
Scalia, Antonio; Sahel, Benjamin - 2021
The investment of the ECB reserves in US dollars and yen, delegated to a network of portfolio managers in the …. Employing a new data set on individual portfolio variables during 2002-2009, we study this peculiar tournament and show the … existence of risk-shifting behaviour by reserve managers related to their year-to-date ranking: interim losers increase relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315986
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Inflation Dynamics with Labour Market Matching : Assessing Alternative Specifications
Christoffel, Kai Philipp; Costain, James S.; de Walque, … - 2010
This paper reviews recent approaches to modeling the labour market and assesses their implications for inflation dynamics through both their effect on marginal cost and on price-setting behaviour. In a search and matching environment, we consider the following modeling setups: right-to-manage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014208182
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Rational Inattention and the Business Cycle Effects of Productivity and News Shocks
Maćkowiak, Bartosz; Wiederholt, Mirko - 2023
We solve a real business cycle model with rational inattention (an RI-RBC model). In the RIRBC model, the growth rates of employment, investment, and output are about as persistent as in the data, with an amount of inattention consistent with survey data on expectations. Moreover, consumption,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014353582
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Productivity Shocks and Real Exchange Rates : A Reappraisal
Peltonen, Tuomas A. - 2009
We reappraise the relationship between productivity and equilibrium real exchange rates using a panel estimation framework that incorporates a large number of countries and importantly, a dataset that allows explicit consideration of the role of non-traded, as well as traded, sector productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764033
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The Role of Labor Markets for Euro Area Monetary Policy
Christoffel, Kai Philipp - 2009
In this paper, we explore the role of labor markets for monetary policy in the euro area in a New Keynesian model in which labor markets are characterized by search and matching frictions. We first investigate to which extent a more flexible labor market would alter the business cycle behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764518
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On Implications of Micro Price Data for Macro Models
Mackowiak, Bartosz - 2008
We review the recent literature that studies new, detailed micro data on prices. We discuss implications of the new micro data for macro models. We argue that the new micro data are helpful for macro models, but not decisive. There is no simple mapping from the frequency of price changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769307
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Macroeconomic Adjustment to Monetary Union
Fagan, Gabriel - 2008
The move to monetary union in Europe led to convergence of interest rates among the participating countries. This was associated with notable cross-country differences in the behaviour of key macroeconomic aggregates. Compared to the low interest rate countries, former high interest rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770251
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The New Area-Wide Model of the Euro Area : A Micro-Founded Open-Economy Model for Forecasting and Policy Analysis
Christoffel, Kai Philipp - 2008
In this paper, we outline a version of the New Area-Wide Model (NAWM) of the euro area designed for use in the (Broad) Macroeconomic Projection Exercises regularly undertaken by ECB/Eurosystem staff. We present estimation results for the NAWM that are obtained by employing Bayesian inference...
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Demographics and Inflation in the Euro Area : A Two-Sector New Keynesian Perspective
Lis, Eliza - 2020
Can the aging process affect inflation? The prolonged decline of fertility and mortality rates induces a persistent downward pressure on the natural interest rate. If this development is not internalized by the monetary policy rule, inflation can be on a downward trend. Using the structure of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838759
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Debt Rule Design in Theory and Practice : The SGP's Debt Benchmark Revisited
Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2020
This paper is linked to two debates on fiscal policies: first, the implications of low interest-growth differentials for debt sustainability and, second, the reform of the EU fiscal governance framework. In both debates the choice of government debt anchor and the speed of adjustment take centre...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840203