This study analyzes the interest rate pass-through (IRPT) from money market rates to various loan rates for up to 12 countries of the European Monetary Union (EMU) between 2003 and 2011 based on fully harmonized data. We first test for a cointegrating relationship between loan rates and the Euro...

This study puts the monetary transmission process in the eurozone between 2003 and 2011 under closer scrutiny. For this purpose, we investigate the interest rate pass-through from money market to various loan rates for up to twelve countries of the European Monetary Union. Applying different...

The impact of global banking on financial stability and the connected post-crisis challenges have been under-researched before the crisis. We interpret ‘global banking’ as ‘global central banking’, focus on the role of international monetary policies and global liquidity for financial...

In this paper we describe the genesis of a doomsday scenario and discuss potential causes and motivations for a breakup of the euro area. For this purpose, we differentiate between the departure of weak and strong countries, and examine the impact of the reintroduction of a national currency on...

Seit Ausbruch der Finanzkrise haben Zentralbanken weltweit versucht, dem wirtschaftlichen Abschwung mit zum Teil unkonventionellen Maßnahmen entgegenzuwirken. Dieser Beitrag fasst einerseits die Maßnahmen der EZB zusammen und zeigt dabei auf, dass die EZB weniger unkonventionell als andere...

This study applies the Cointegrated Vector-Autoregressive (CVAR) model to analyze the long-run relationships and short-run dynamics between stock markets and monetary policy across five developed and three emerging economies. Our main aim is to check whether monetary policy plays an important...

This paper tackles the question of whether a cross-sectional perspective on monetary policy is capable of explaining movements in global commodity prices. In this vein, we contribute to the rich literature on global liquidity in two different ways: on the one hand, to achieve a global series in...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the spot and futures prices of energy commodities from a new perspective. Taking data from the Dow Jones UBS Commodity Index, we first test for a long-run relationship between spot and futures prices. As a second step, smooth transition models are...

This paper tackles the issue of cross-section dependence for the monetary exchange rate model in the presence of unobserved common factors using panel data from 1973 until 2007 for 19 OECD countries. Applying a principal component analysis we distinguish between common factors and idiosyncratic...

This paper examines the importance of the economic sentiments of some macroeconomic key variables in Estonia, Slovenia and Latvia. We analyze the importance of domestic as well as foreign sentiments with respect to these economies against the background of their accession to the European...