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Monetary policy surprises and their transmission through term premia and expected interest rates

Kaminska, Iryna; Mumtaz, Haroon; Šustek, Roman - 2020

for macroeconomic outcomes? Using an affine term structure model, we shed new light on these questions. Estimation is … subject to restrictions addressing an estimation bias in expected interest rates obtained by previous studies. Highfrequency … the transmission mechanism and broadly consistent with macroeconomic theory. …

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Exchange rate policy in small rich economies

Breedon, Francis J.; Thórarinn G. Pétursson; Rose, Andrew - 2011

We look at the exchange rate policy choices and outcomes for small rich economies. Small rich economies face significant policy challenges due to proportionately greater economic volatility than larger economies. These economies usually choose some form of fixed exchange rate regime,...

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Trade openness and exchange rate management

Heresi, Rodrigo; Parrado, Eric - 2023

Singapore's unique monetary policy consists of a managed exchange rate framework that can be characterized as a Taylor-like reaction function with the nominal devaluation rate instead of the nominal interest rate as the main policy instrument. We build a small open economy New Keynesian model to...

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Hawks vs. Doves : ECB's monetary policy in light of the Fed's policy stance

Hauzenberger, Niko; Huber, Florian; Zörner, Thomas - 2023

The secular increase in globalization led to a substantial increase in the interconnectedness of global financial markets. This has important implications for the conduct of monetary policy, as central bank policies may diverge across countries, potentially affecting key transmission channels of...

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Dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks on macroeconomic volatility

Mumtaz, Haroon; Theodoridis, Konstantinos - 2015

We use a simple New Keynesian model, with firm specific capital, non-zero steady-state inflation, long-run risks and Epstein-Zin preferences to study the volatility implications of a monetary policy shock. An unexpected increases in the policy rate by 150 basis points causes output and inflation...

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Effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional activity : a constrained MFVAR approach

Mandalinci, Zeyyad - 2015

This paper examines the effects of monetary policy shocks on UK regional economic growth and dispersion in a novel Constrained Mixed Frequency Vector Autoregressive framework. Compared to a standard MFVAR, the model partially accounts for missing quarterly observations for regional growth by...

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UK term structure decompositions at the zero lower bound

Carriero, Andrea; Mouabbi, Sarah; Vangelista, Elisabetta - 2015

This paper employs a Zero Lower Bound (ZLB) consistent shadow-rate model to decompose UK nominal yields into expectation and term premia components. Compared to a standard affine term structure model, it performs relatively better in a ZLB setting and effectively captures the countercyclical...

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Forward guidance matters : disentangling monetary policy shocks

Ferreira, Leonardo Nogueira - 2020

Central banks have usually employed short-term rates as the main instrument of monetary policy. In the last decades, however, forward guidance has also become a central tool for monetary policy. In an innovative way this paper combines two sources of extraneous information - high frequency...

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Will macroprudential policy counteract monetary policy's effects on financial stability?

Agur, Itai; Demertzis, Maria - 2018

How does monetary policy impact upon macroprudential regulation? This paper models monetary policy's transmission to bank risk taking, and its interaction with a regulator's optimization problem. The regulator uses its macroprudential tool, a leverage ratio, to maintain financial stability,...

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Credit risks and monetary policy within Caribbean economies

Arana, Rumile; Ramirez, Francisco A.; Wright, Allan - 2017

Our paper addresses the issue on the interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies in small open economies for different exchange rate regimes. The need for macroprudential policy arises from exacerbated macroeconomic fluctuations due to frictions in the financial system as in...

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