We study the relationship between corporate leverage and the sensitivity of industrial production to monetary policy shocks within the euro-area manufacturing sector. Using polynomial state-dependent local projections, we document a non-linear association. When leverage is low, more indebted...

This paper studies the spillover effects of the ECB's monetary policies on non-euro area countries over the period 2004-2016, using a GVAR methodology, applied to a large sample of countries and an ample set of variables. Monetary policies are proxied by short-term interest rates and the Wu and...