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Hartmann, Philipp; Maddaloni, Angela; Manganelli, Simone - 2003

Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...

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A monthly monetary model with banking intermediation for the euro area

Bruggeman, Annick; Donnay, Marie - 2003

for the existence of a bank lending channel. Finally, the estimation of the Structural-VECM highlights very rich dynamics … demand and a loan demand model which both include the relation between the respective retail bank rates and the short …

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Bank mergers, competition and liquidity

Carletti, Elena; Hartmann, Philipp; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2003

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …

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Developing statistical indicators of the integration of the euro area banking system

Manna,Michele - 2004

This paper discusses a wide range of indicators of the degree of integration of the euro area banking system. It is concerned with volume data, a less developed field of research compared with studies on prices/rates. We first set out a methodological framework, a mixture of elementary and more...

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Volatility of interest rates in the euro area

Cassola, Nuno; Morana, Claudio - 2003

This paper estimates the factors underlying the volatility of the euro overnight interest rate and its transmission along the euro area money market yield curve. A new multivariate unobserved components model is proposed allowing for both long-memory and stationary cyclical dynamics. Using...

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The lender of last resort

Freixas, Xavier; Parigi, Bruno M.; Rochet, Jean-Charles - 2003

The classical Bagehotu0092s conception of a Lender of Last Resort (LOLR) that lends to illiquid banks has been criticized on two grounds: on the one hand, the distinction between insolvency and illiquidity is not clear cut; on the other a fully collateralized repo market allows Central Banks to...

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Raising rival's costs in the securities settlement industry

Holthausen, Cornelia; Tapking, Jens - 2004

The competition between a central securities depository (CSD) and a custodian bank is analysed in a Stackelberg model …. The CSD sets its prices first, the custodian bank follows. There are many investor banks each of which has to decide … whether to use the service of the CSD or of the custodian bank. This decision depends on the prices and the investor bank …

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Liquidity requirements and payment delays

Schulz, Christian - 2011

The paper presents an analysis of the trade-offs of participants of different type between payment delay and liquidity requirement on the basis of synthetically generated data. The generation of the synthetic transaction data set for a simple RTGS system is described and calibrated using real...

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Optimal monetary policy under commitment with a zero bound on nominal interest rates

Adam, Klaus; Billi, Roberto M. - 2004

We determine optimal monetary policy under commitment in a forwardlooking New Keynesian model when nominal interest rates are bounded below by zero. The lower bound represents an occasionally binding constraint that causes the model and optimal policy to be nonlinear. A calibration to the U.S....

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Optimal monetary policy under discretion with a zero bound on nominal interest rates

Adam, Klaus; Billi, Roberto M. - 2004

We determine optimal discretionary monetary policy in a New-Keynesian model when nominal interest rates are bounded below by zero. Nominal interest rates should be lowered faster in response to adverse shocks than in the case without bound. Such ‘preemptive easing’ is optimal because...

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