Global liquidity has been more and more important in the last couple of years and everbody from media to policymakers are talking about it. In order to shed light on the effects of global liquidity, we investigate the impact of global liquidity expansion on major macroeconomic variables of G-7...

When the nominal interest rate reaches the zero lower bound (ZLB), a conventional monetary policy, namely, the adjustment of short-term interest rate, may become impractical and ineffective for central banks. Therefore, quantitative easing (QE) is one of the few available policy options of...

This article extends the Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression Model (FAVAR) to mixed-frequency and incomplete panel data. Within the scope of a fully parametric two-step approach, the alternating application of two expectation-maximization algorithms jointly estimates model parameters and...

Als Reaktion auf die Corona-Krise haben die Notenbanken des Eurosystems ihre Anleihekäufe im Rahmen des APP-Programms weiter aufgestockt und um das PEPP-Programm erweitert. Diese im Zusammenspiel mit weiteren Maßnahmen der "außergewöhnlichen Geldpolitik" geschaffene zusätzliche Liquidität...

The purpose of the research is to investigate the effect of external and internal factors on corporate performance and sustainable competitive advantage. The samples of the study are ten manufacturing companies in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and household utility sectors listed on the...

Advanced economies are increasingly based on intangible capital. Intangible capital has at least two special characteristics compared to tangible capital. First, it can be simultaneously used to produce different goods. Second, it is less suitable as collateral for obtaining external funds than...

This paper utilizes a modified structural VAR (SVAR-X) model to analyse the process of monetary policy reaction function in turbulent period compared to the period of tranquillity. The study finds that it is crucial to distinguish between the response of monetary policy to output growth and...

In most economies the banking sector plays the major role in the financial system. Therefore, it is of great importance to analyse and understand the mechanism of transmission of monetary policy and its impact on the banking sector. One of the possible repercussions of changing the level of...

Die Europäische Zentralbank hat im Dezember 2021 mit einer ,Normalisierung' ihres geldpolitischen Kurses begonnen. Anders als die Federal Reserve kann sie aber dem Preisschock auf den internationalen Energiemärkten nicht mit einer entschiedenen Restriktionspolitik begegnen, weil die...

Lieferengpässe im Zuge der Covid-19-Pandemie und der Krieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine haben dazu beigetragen, dass die Inflationsraten wieder angestiegen sind. Wir argumentieren, dass sich dadurch sechs strukturelle Faktoren verstärkt haben, warum die Inflation und auch höhere Zinsen nicht...