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This paper gives a detailed explanation of why a central bank without fiscal backing can lose control of inflation. Moreover, it argues that such danger emerged only recently for the ECB due to its increasing quasi-fiscal activities. Finally we argue that it might not generally be a good idea to...
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Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a crucial role in innovation, economic growth and job creation. Generally, SMEs face special problems when trying to access funding. Their situation is further complicated by the European economic crisis and a fragmentation of financial markets in...
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We assess the time-varying money's role in the post-WWII U.S. business cycle by estimating a new-Keynesian framework … policymakers to money growth. Rolling-window Bayesian estimations a la Canova (2009) are contrasted to a full sample fixed …-coefficient investigation. Our results suggest that the assumption of stable parameters is unwarranted. The omission of money may induce biased …
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This paper examines whether government ideology has influenced monetary policy in OECD countries. We use quarterly data in the 1980.1–2005.4 period and exclude EMU countries. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant index of central bank independence with...
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. Finally, it comes up with some policy implications from differences in money and credit growth in different individual …
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eines koordinierten Exits von Fed und EZB, der koordinierte Exit von Geld- und Fiskalpolitik in der EWU sowie das Auslaufen …
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This Paper comments on the role of the Monetary Dialogue in the context of an evolving monetary policy. The discussion is conducted in terms of the adoption of forward guidance on interest rates by the European Central Bank (ECB), the ECB’s model choice and data revision policies in inflation...
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. Finally, it comes up with some policy implications from differences in money and credit growth in different individual …
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inflation gap, money growth and the risk spread, the response to asset price inflation becomes more pronounced during the crisis …
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Since the outbreak of the financial market crisis central banks all across the world have tried to counteract the economic downturn with at least partly unconventional measures. This contribution reviews the measures taken in the eurozone and points out that the ECB acted less unconventionally...
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