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Central banks have won in credibility as from the mid-eighties by keeping inflation under control. However, confidence in low inflation might have encouraged agents to excessive risk-taking, leading asset prices to rise. Moreover, the belief in a Federal Reserve guarantee against a sharp market...
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The article looks at the disparity of views among experts regarding the growth of the “Euro-dollar market”. Contradictory explanations have been offered by various authors on the sources and uses of these funds. On one side of the spectrum is the idea that Euro-dollar deposits are the result...
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of Fed announcements, underlining the importance of the market repair and liquidity functions of Fed policies. Third, we …
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The article looks at the disparity of views among experts regarding the growth of the “Euro-dollar market”. Contradictory explanations have been offered by various authors on the sources and uses of these funds. On one side of the spectrum is the idea that Euro-dollar deposits are the result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854320
The article looks at the disparity of views among experts regarding the growth of the “Euro-dollar market”. Contradictory explanations have been offered by various authors on the sources and uses of these funds. On one side of the spectrum is the idea that Euro-dollar deposits are the result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752016
prices dwarfed those of Fed announcements, underlining the importance of the market repair and liquidity functions of Fed …
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In most advanced economies, risk-free interest rates – i.e. the rates applicable to assets with minimal credit risk – have fallen to historically low levels over the recent period, in both nominal and real terms. These interest rates are particularly important because they serve as the basis...
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liquidity surplus, defined as the sum of the recourse to the deposit facility and the current account holdings in excess of the … deposit facility is an automatic corollary to increased central bank liquidity provision because the relationship between the … placed on the deposit facility are not informative as to whether or not the liquidity is actually “being put to use”, for …
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This paper tries to answer the long-standing question of whether money causes output. Instead of focusing on domestic monetary policy and output, we analyze U.S. monetary policy and its possible effects on real output in China. Our results indicate that the main monetary instrument in the U.S.,...
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This paper uses data for Australia, the United States, Japan and the euro area to examine the relative performance of the headline CPI, exclusion-based ‘cores’, and trimmed means as measures of underlying inflation. Overall, we find that trimmed means tend to outperform headline and...
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