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process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO …
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instability of euro area money demand. Our results obtained from panel estimation indicate that the observed instability of … analysis in the euro area. This paper uses country-specific monetary aggregates to shed more light on the economics behind the … ; euro area …
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Recent monetary search models emphasize that the real effects of inflation via its impact on price dispersion depend on the level of search costs and, thus, on the level of market integration. For less integrated markets, the inflation-price dispersion nexus is predicted to be asymmetrically...
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This paper investigates why financial market experts misperceive the interest rate policy of the European Central Bank (ECB). Assuming a Taylor-rule-type reaction function of the ECB, we use qualitative survey data on expectations about the future interest rate, inflation, and output to discover...
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We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For industrialized countries, our results confirm the...
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This is the first study that assesses the economic effects of direct democratic institutions on a cross country basis. Its results are based on up to six new measures produced to reflect the legislative basis for using direct democratic institutions as well as their factual use. In addition, a...
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Well-anchored inflation expectations should not react to short-term oriented macroeconomic news. This paper analyzes the dynamic response of inflation expectations to macro news shocks in a structural VAR model. As identification of structural macro news shocks is controversial, we use a proxy...
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We introduce a Divisia monetary aggregate for the euro area that accounts for the heterogeneity across member countries … both, in terms of interest rates and the decomposition of monetary assets. In most of the euro area countries, the … the simple sum aggregate has a significant predictive content for recessions in euro area countries. …
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