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Have unconventional monetary policies (UMPs) become less effective at stimulating economies in persistently low interest rate environments? This paper examines that question with a time-varying parameter VAR for the United States, the United Kingdom, the euro area and Japan. One advantage of our...
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An asset manager's rapid liquidation in the weeks around the end of September 2014 of a very large position in eurodollar futures, a huge derivatives market that allows traders to position on the future path of dollar money rates, raises two questions. What is the profile of asset managers in...
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The recent global financial crisis has led central banks to rely heavily on "unconventional" monetary policies. This alternative approach to policy has generated much discussion and a heated and at times confusing debate. The debate has been complicated by the use of different definitions and...
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Most quantitative easing programmes primarily involve central banks acquiring government liabilities in return for central bank reserves. In all cases this process is undertaken by purchasing these liabilities in the secondary market rather than directly from the government. Yet the only...
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We explore the effectiveness and balance of benefits and costs of so-called "unconventional" monetary policy measures extensively implemented in the wake of the financial crisis: balance sheet policies (commonly termed "quantitative easing"), forward guidance and negative policy rates. Our...
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We show that the FX impact of monetary policy has been growing significantly. We use a high-frequency event study of the joint response of fixed income instruments and exchange rates to monetary policy news from seven major central banks spanning 2004-2015. News affecting short maturity bonds...
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The recent global financial crisis has led central banks to rely heavily on "unconventional" monetary policies. This alternative approach to policy has generated much discussion and a heated and at times confusing debate. The debate has been complicated by the use of different definitions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095177
during the 19th century to facilitate interregional payments and flows of liquidity and credit. Vast sums moved through the … the system's resilience to solvency and liquidity shocks and whether these shocks might have been contagious. We find that … the interbank system became more resilient to solvency shocks, but less resilient to liquidity shocks, as banks sharply …
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explains why liquidity cannot easily be apprehended through a single statistics, and asks whether liquidity should be regulated … containment. Finally, the paper takes a macroeconomic perspective, discusses shortages of aggregate liquidity and analyses how … market value accounting and capital adequacy should react to asset prices. It concludes with a topical form of liquidity …
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funding liquidity and yields. In particular, we spotlight how in the 1960s the Federal Reserve, working in conjunction with … the BIS and European central banks, repeatedly used swaps to manage eurodollar funding liquidity and Libor yields. BIS …, Bank of England and Swiss National Bank archives show an intention to offset seasonal disturbances to funding liquidity in …
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