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We conduct laboratory experiments with human subjects to test the rationale of adopting a band versus point inflation targeting regime. Within the standard New Keynesian model, we evaluate the macroeconomic performances of both regimes according to the strength of shocks affecting the economy....
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Leaning against the wind of credit booms is a monetary policy that is tighter than what is consistent with standard …
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The article supplements the research on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission - especially through the bank lending channel. The current study focuses on assessing the transmission of monetary impulses through commercial and cooperative banks as well as through individual loan...
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Fixed-rate loans may contribute to financial stability because they lower the volatility of interest rates. This reduced volatility of interest rates, however, may undermine the effectiveness of monetary policy. Fixed-rate loans, also, may change the steady-states of economy because fixed...
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We analyze the effect of monetary policy on yield spreads between corporate bonds with different credit ratings over … predictions of imperfect capital market theories, we find that yields on corporate bonds with low credit ratings widen (narrow …) with respect to those with high credit ratings following an unexpected increase (decrease) in the Fed funds target rate …
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We study how capital controls and domestic macroprudential policy tame credit supply booms, respectively targeting … exchange (FX) debt inflows and an increase of reserve requirements on domestic bank deposits in Colombia during a strong credit … boom, as well as credit registry and bank balance sheet data. Our results suggest that first, an increase in the local …
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panel of data on Australian Authorized Deposit-Taking Institutions (ADIs), we show that the supply of credit is vulnerable …
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We augment a standard New Keynesian model with a financial accelerator mechanism and show that financial frictions generate large state-dependent amplification effects. We fit the model to US data and show that, when shocks drive the model far away from the steady state, the nonlinear model...
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This paper sets out an empirical framework for examining the dynamics of money and credit at a sectoral level. Our … stocks of broad money and credit held by different sectors. Each sector is modelled as a separate block with money, credit … second, the effect of disturbances to credit markets. We also discuss how other policy tools, such as the Funding for Lending …
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We implement a repeated version of the Barro-Gordon monetary policy game in the laboratory and ask whether reputation serves as a substitute for commitment, enabling the central bank to achieve the efficient Ramsey equilibrium and avoid the inefficient, time-inconsistent one-shot Nash...
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