In the light of the recent financial crisis, the ECB has announced a slight shift in the reading of its monetary policy strategy and acknowledges that the case for a “leaning against the wind” strategy has strengthened. This implies that now, more than ever, the ECB is willing to dampen...

We analyze monetary conditions in US asset markets - corporate equity, real estate, Treasury bond and corporate & foreign bond - from a market specific perspective, proposing the concept of market leverage. Market leverage measures the average leverage of all asset holders in a particular asset...

The paper examines if US monetary policy implicitly responds to asset prices. Using real-time data and a GMM framework we estimate a Taylor-type rule with an asset cycle variable, which refers to real estate prices. To analyze the Fed's responses we describe real estate price movements by means...

Die Federal Reserve ist laut dem Federal Reserve Act unter anderem dazu verpflichtet, stabile Preise zu gewährleisten. Das Erreichen dieses geldpolitischen Ziels wird offiziell auf Ebene der Verbraucherpreise angesiedelt. Darüber hinaus bekräftigt die FED, dass kein explizites Asset Price...