The European DataWarehouse, established in July 2012, provides access to publicly available information on European Asset-Backed Securities (ABS). There was limited detailed information on the underlying securities in Irish Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) prior to this time. This...

The European DataWarehouse, established in July 2012, provides access to publicly available information on European Asset-Backed Securities (ABS). There was limited detailed information on the underlying securities in Irish Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS) prior to this time. This...

This article describes how the on-going sovereign debt crisis has created a lack of confidence in the market, where access to traditional sources of funding for certain counterparties has become increasingly unavailable or prohibitively expensive.

That Malthus was guilty of egregious error in his claim to have established the labor-commanded magnitude as an "invariable" unit of value is well-known. Even his modern biographer could appeal only to a "kink or a crotchet, some kind of cerebral block" to excuse Malthus's persistent failure to...

An optimizingmodel, with a flexible-price sector and a sticky-price sector, ispresented to analyze the effects of relative-price changes on inflation fluctuations. Therelative price of the flexible-price good represents a shift parameter of the NewKeynesian Phillips curve. The optimal monetary...

We describe a behavior of a central bank when its measures of current inflation and outputare subject to measurement errors, in a framework of optimizing models with nominal pricestickiness. In our model, a central bank sets the interest rate equal to its current estimate of theso-called...

The 1990s were characterized by substantial financial sectorconsolidation across a large number of industrializedcountries...

The global financial crisis that began in mid-2007 has renewedconcerns about financial instability and focused attention onthe fundamental role of central banks in preventing andmanaging systemic crises. In response to the turmoil, centralbanks have made extensive use of both new and existing...

In this paper, we assess the effects of changes to the primarycredit facility since August 2007 by performing out-of-samplesimulations based on a model developed by Artuç andDemiralp (2008). Our results are highly consistent with thepredictions of our 2008 study—that is, the revised...

[...]This paper addresses how central banks can resuscitatelending chains by providing information that reduces uncertainty about participants along the chains. This action has been taken before: the Bank Holiday of 1933, declared byPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resolved uncertaintyabout...