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Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a...
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mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have … indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the "bank … responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity …
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In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through the relaxation of lending standards for borrowers. Our dataset covers the period 2003Q1-2016Q2 and includes, in addition to the standard variables for real GDP growth,...
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We estimate the effects of exogenous innovations to the balance sheet of the ECB since the start of the financial crisis within a structural VAR framework. An expansionary balance sheet shock stimulates bank lending, stabilizes financial markets, and has a positive impact on economic activity...
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transmission to output and investment, amplify the credit cycle, and flatten the Phillips curve. …
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policy is transmitted via the portfolio rebalancing, the signalling, credit easing and exchange rate channels. Spanish real …
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This study shows that, in the United States, the effects of monetary policy on credit and housing markets have become …. Macroeconomic stabilization through monetary policy may therefore have become associated with greater fluctuations in credit and … housing markets, whereas stabilizing credit and house prices may have become less costly in terms of macroeconomic volatility …
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This paper addresses the credit channel in Germany by using aggregate data. We present a stylized model of the banking …. Evidence in support of the credit channel can be reported. …
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the importance of the interest rate and credit channels on business fixed investment in Germany. We have at our disposal … measure of creditworthiness, we find that credit constraints are important for a subset of firms. Sortings by firm size or …
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This paper investigates the role of monetary policy uncertainty for the transmission of FOMC actions to financial markets using a novel model-free measure of uncertainty based on derivative prices. We document a systematic pattern in monetary policy uncertainty over the course of the FOMC...
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