The aim of the paper is to understand how the financial crisis has affected the interest rate pass-through (PT) in the Eurozone between market rates and bank interest rates. We have applied a SUR-ECM model. This methodology allows testing for the homogeneity of the PT of the euro area countries....

We empirically investigate the determinants of sovereign bond spreads in the euro area since the beginning of the crisis. We combine economic but also political uncertainty variables for three different groups of countries. We took into account an institutional shift in the spring 2010. Before...

How might central bank communication of its internal forecasts assist the conduct of monetary policy? The literature has shown that heterogeneous expectations may have destabilizing effects on aggregate dynamics. This paper analyzes through adaptive learning the policy implications of central...