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the Fed's post-COVID-19 tightening cycle, and highlight the benefits of the broad improvements of monetary policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015199446
This paper provides empirical evidence on the macroeconomic impact of the expanded asset purchase programme (APP) announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) in January 2015. The shock associated to the APP is identified with a combination of sign, timing and magnitude restrictions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954345
We build a new empirical model to estimate the global impact of an increase in the volatility of US monetary policy shocks. Specifically, we admit time-varying variances of local structural shocks from a stochastic volatility specification. By allowing for rich dynamic interaction between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243822
We propose a method for estimating a subset of the parameters of a structural rational expectations model by exploiting changes in policy. We define a class of models, midway between a vector autoregression and a structural model, that we call the recoverable structure. As an application of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604321
find that Fed measures in the early phase of the crisis (QE1) were highly effective in lowering sovereign yields and … raising equity markets, especially in the US relative to other countries. Fed measures since 2010 (QE2) boosted equities … worldwide, while they had muted impact on yields across countries. Yet Fed policies functioned in a procyclical manner for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081463
This paper puts forward a characterization of the structural features of the economic system relevant to the monetary-policy decisions of the European Central Bank. The econometric analysis adopts a parsimonious VAR representation of three key macroeconomic variables (interest rates, prices and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604048
Spillovers between the US and euro area term structures of interest rates are examined. Implications for monetary policy are investigated using term-structure metrics that proxy conventional and unconventional instruments, i.e. the short rate, the 10 year term premium, and the 10 year risk-free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606025
Spillovers between the US and euro area term structures of interest rates are examined. Implications for monetary policy are investigated using term-structure metrics that proxy conventional and unconventional instruments, i.e. the short rate, the 10 year term premium, and the 10 year risk-free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963922
This paper provides empirical evidence on the macroeconomic impact of the expanded asset purchase programme (APP) announced by the European Central Bank (ECB) in January 2015. The shock associated to the APP is identified with a combination of sign, timing and magnitude restrictions in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011804390
We build a new empirical model to estimate the global impact of an increase in the volatility of US monetary policy shocks. Specifically, we admit time-varying variances of local structural shocks from a stochastic volatility specification. By allowing for rich dynamic interaction between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422175