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We explore the role of financial openness – capital account openness and gross capital inflows – and a newly constructed gravity-based contagion index to assess the importance of these factors in the run-up to currency crises. Using a quarterly data set of 46 advanced and emerging market...
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whether monetary policy convergence in the euro area led to a convergence in terms of exchange rate pass-through. We conduct a … comparative study between the “experiment group” (the euro area) and the “control group” (non-euro industrial countries). We find … evidence for stronger convergence of exchange rate pass-through for the euro area economies as a group, especially around the …
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-term fluctuations in the euro area have become more strongly correlated with financial variables like credit and house prices, and less …
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euro area government bond yields. We distinguish between the direct effects of domestic bond purchases by national central … banks and the indirect effects from bond purchases by national central banks in other euro area countries over the period … March 2015 - December 2018. The results reveal substantial spillover effects across the euro area, providing evidence for …
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We study the use of US dollar central bank swap lines as a tool for addressing dislocations in the foreign currency swap market against the USD since the global financial crisis. We find that the use of the Federal Reserve's USD central bank swap lines was mainly related to tensions in US money...
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We quantify the impact of explicit FOMC policy rate guidance used as an unconventional monetary policy tool at the zero lower bound of the policy rate on US equity prices, as well as on the risk indicators of credit and CDS spreads, implied volatilities and US equity index risk reversals. We...
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We quantify the impact of explicit FOMC policy rate guidance used as an unconventional monetary policy tool at the zero lower bound of the policy rate on market interest rates. We study the impact on short- to medium-term interest rates implied by Eurodollar interest rate futures contracts, and...
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We develop indicators for signs of liquidity shortages and potential financial problems of banks by studying transaction data of the Dutch part of the European real time gross settlement system and collateral management data. The indicators give information on 1) overall liquidity position, 2)...
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We use an overlapping generations model to show that a bail-out is the optimal response to a fiscal crisis when the level of integration in a Monetary Union is high and the departure from Ricardian equivalence is significant. As it may not be optimal expost, the no bail-out rule is not credible...
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This paper investigates the role that Eurobonds could play in making EMU stable in the long run. We establish that EMU's budgetary problems are not only caused by lack of budgetary discipline, but also by the large and sudden fiscal deterioration during the financial crisis. This type of shock...
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