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for further analysis. Focusing on the press conferences of the ECB, this paper employs structural topic modelling (STM … Council as well as the ECB’s stance on broader economic issues …
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This paper explores the role that the imperfect knowledge of the structure of the economy plays in the uncertainty surrounding the effects of rule-based monetary policy on unemployment dynamics in the euro area and the US. We employ a Bayesian model averaging procedure on a wide range of models...
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statements and press conferences announcing monetary policy actions taken by the ECB. We find that an unexpected decrease of 25 …
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and to anticipate monetary policy by the ECB? Using a database of surveys of professional ECB policy forecasters in 24 …
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, and thus an important factor for its credibility and policy effectiveness. This paper analyses the coverage which ECB … that the press critically discusses the ECB’s policy decisions in the context of prior market expectations and of the … inflation environment, and that the media’s coverage of decisions is generally highly responsive to ECB communication – in …
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households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge … on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a weak desire to be informed and unawareness of insufficient knowledge …
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This paper contributes to the literature on liquidity crises and central banks acting as lenders of last resort by capturing the mechanics of dual liquidity crises, i.e. funding crises which encompass both the private and the public sector, within a closed system of financial accounts. We...
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results suggest that the bank-lending channel has been partly mitigated by the ECB nonstandard monetary policy interventions …
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From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis began in August 2007 inflation expectations were high...
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results suggest that the bank-lending channel has been partly mitigated by the ECB nonstandard monetary policy interventions …
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