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This paper employs a two-country New Keynesian DSGE model to assess the macroeconomic impact of the changes in monetary policy frameworks and the fiscal support in the U.S. and euro area during the pandemic. Moving from a previous target of "below, but close to 2 percent" to a formal symmetric...
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decomposing U.S. interest rates changes into two orthogonal shocks: the pure monetary policy shock and the information news shock … shocks. Moreover, high oil prices mitigate both spillovers for oil exporters while global risk appetite amplifies both … countries, with oil exporters with stronger fundamentals withstanding well the shock and oil importers with weaker fundamentals …
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supply-demand mismatches. While the results show that firms have passed on more than the nominal cost shock, and have fared …
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reduction during the first wave of COVID-19, therefore supporting the interpretation of COVID-19 shock as a macroeconomic … uncertainty shock. Public debt increases in response to this uncertainty shock. Finally, an increase in MEU negatively affects …
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We analyze the European Central Bank's (ECB's) response to the global financial crisis. Our results suggest that even during the crisis, the core part of ECB's monetary policy transmission-from policy rates to market rates-has continued to operate, but at a decreased efficiency. We also find...
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tightening surprises reduce life satisfaction. Notably, the impact of a one standard deviation monetary policy shock on well …
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This paper examines how countries use Macroprudential Policies (MaPs) to respond to external shocks such as US monetary policy surprises or fluctuations in capital flows. Constructing a model of a small open economy with financial frictions and a MaP authority that adjusts loan to value (LTV)...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the information content of money in forecasting euro-area inflation. We compare the predictive performance within and among various classes of structural and empirical models in a consistent framework using...
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The U.S. business cycle typically leads the European cycle by a few quarters and this can be used to forecast euro area GDP. We investigate whether financial variables carry additional information. We use vector autoregressions (VARs) which include the U.S. and the euro area GDPs as a minimal...
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activity; (iii) a positive shock to the corporate bond spread lowers industrial output; and (iv) risk indicators for the …
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