Based on Chinese city-level data from 1999 to 2012 and controlling for geological, environmental, and social diversity, this study suggests that credit plays a significant role in driving up house prices after the Great Recession, whereas property prices only influence bank lending before 2008....

China's stock market is a policy-driven market, which is eager to get any signals about the monetary policy. Due to its limited independence, the People’s Bank of China (PBC) prefer to release ambiguous information with multiple sentiments at the single communication to the public. This paper...

This paper explores the cross-sectional asset pricing implications of the ambiguity of central bank communication through the dispersion of multiple policy stances in a single communication. By distinguishing different sentiments for each communication event with a field-specific lexicon, we...

We show that dealer market power impedes the pass-through of monetary policy in the European repo market. The current literature has mostly centered around collateral scarcity, where scarce and heterogeneous collateral causes repo rates to fall below policy rates and diverge across collateral...