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This paper studies the effects of ECB communications about unconventional monetary policy operations on the perceived sovereign risk of Italy over the last five years. More than fifty events concerning non-standard operations are identified and classified with respect to the specific ECB...
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This paper analyzes the factors underlying the weakness of the euro. For this purpose, the framework advocated by … sample from 1980 to 2000. However, historical decompositions reveal that fluctuations since the introduction of the euro in …
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We analyze cyclical co-movement in credit, house prices, equity prices, and long-term interest rates across 17 advanced economies. Using a time-varying multi-level dynamic factor model and more than 130 years of data, we analyze the dynamics of co-movement at different levels of aggregation and...
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In this paper we investigate the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogenous agents and a stylized banking sector. We show that frictions in credit supply amplify the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic...
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Macro-stress testing studies often rely on rather short sample periods due to the limited availability of banking data. They may fail to appropriately account for the cyclicality in the interaction between the banking system and macroeconomic developments. In this paper we use a newly...
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I analyze spillover effects from Euro area monetary policy shocks to thirteen EU countries outside the Euro area, i … variables. An expansionary Euro area monetary policy shock raises production in most non-Euro area countries. Somewhat larger …, where foreign demand effects are particularly strong. In addition, a Euro area monetary expansion leads to declines in …
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and Gertler (1998, 2000) to study monetary policy in Germany in the period 1991 to 1998. The estimation results show that …
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This paper investigates within a SVAR framework the effects of anticipated monetary policy in the euro area. Building …
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We study the impact of monetary conditions on the supply of mortgage credit by banks to households. Using comprehensive credit register data from Hungary, we first establish a "bank-lending-to-households" channel by showing that monetary conditions affect the supply of mortgage credit in volume....
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policy responses for Japan, the US and the Euro area. The estimation results show that the bias of conventional estimation …Monetary policy rule parameters estimated with conventional estimation techniques can be severely biased if the … estimation sample includes periods of low interest rates. Nominal interest rates cannot be negative, so that censored regression …
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