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We explore the effects of forward guidance at the zero lower bound when there is uncertainty over the lift-off date …
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This paper investigates the effects of uncertainty shocks on selected U.S. financial asset prices by decomposing a … traditional uncertainty shock into its supply-side and demand-side components. Following the approach by Piffer and Podstawski … (2018), we identify uncertainty shocks using the price of gold and enhance this strategy by introducing the price of oil as …
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This paper quantifies how variation in real economic activity and inflation in the U.S. influenced the market prices of level, slope, and curvature risks in U.S. Treasury markets. We develop a novel arbitrage-free dynamic term structure model in which bond investment decisions are influenced by...
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prices. This paper addresses the open question of how shifts in the uncertainty about future policy rates matter for the … transmission of monetary policy to financial markets. To this end, we develop a novel measure of policy uncertainty based on … derivative prices that can be used in event studies. We provide evidence for an FOMC uncertainty cycle, the systematic pattern of …
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The strongest predictor of changes in the Fed Funds rate in the period 1982–2008 was the layoff rate. That fact is puzzling from the perspective of representative-agent models of the economy, which imply that the welfare gains of stabilizing employment fluctuations are small. This paper...
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This article analyzes the effect of valuations-based capital requirements and concentration risk provisions on the risk-shifting response of the banking sector to monetary easing. It provides a closed economy DSGE model for the Euro zone with costly bank capital and two heterogeneous borrowers....
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. A central feature is that matching frictions render labor-market risk countercyclical and endogenous to monetary policy. Our main result is that a majority of households prefer substantial stabilization of...
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. In the model, systematic monetary stabilization policy affects the distribution of income, income risks, and the demand for funds and supply of assets: the demand, because matching frictions render idiosyncratic...
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. A central feature is that matching frictions render labor-market risk countercyclical and endogenous to monetary policy. Our main result is that a majority of households prefer substantial stabilization of...
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