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Christiano, Lawrence J. (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Christiano, Lawrence J.; Gust, Christopher J.; Roldós, … - 2021

What are the economic effects of an interest rate cut when an economy is in the midst of a financial crisis? Under what … ffects? We answer these questions in a general class of open economy models, where a financial crisis is modeled as a time … the traded good sector and in adjusting the rate at which that output can be used in other parts of the economy, then a …

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ECB Policies Involving Government Bond Purchases : Impact and Channels

Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2017

We evaluate the effects of three ECB policies (the Securities Markets Programme, the Outright Monetary Transactions, and the Long-Term Refinancing Operations) on government bond yields. We use a novel Kalman-filter augmented event-study approach and yields on euro-denominated sovereign bonds,...

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Government Policy, Credit Markets and Economic Activity

Christiano, Lawrence J. - 2011

The US government has recently conducted large scale purchases of assets and implemented policies that reduced the cost of funds to financial institutions. Arguably these policies have helped to correct credit market dysfunctions, allowing interest rate spreads to shrink and output to begin a...

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A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk

He, Zhiguo - 2014

economy and feeds back into further disrupting financial intermediation. We present a macroeconomic model with a financial … stochastic steady state distribution for the economy, in which only some of the states correspond to systemic risk states. The …

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A "Vertical" Analysis of Crises and Intervention : Fear of Floating and Ex-Ante Problems

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2021

Emerging economies are prone to crises triggered by external shocks. During these crises, should the central bank stabilize the currency or domestic interest rates? If the choice is outside the central bank's control, as in a currency board, are there good policy substitutes? We argue that these...

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The Simple Analytics of Monetary Policy : A Post-Crisis Approach

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2013

The standard workhorse models of monetary policy now commonly in use, both for teaching macroeconomics to students and for supporting policymaking within many central banks, are incapable of incorporating the most widely accepted accounts of how the 2007-9 financial crisis occurred and incapable...

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Has the Financial Crisis Permanently Changed the Practice of Monetary Policy? Has it Changed the Theory of Monetary Policy?

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2014

I argue in this paper that one of the two forms of hitherto unconventional monetary policy that many central banks have implemented in response to the 2007 financial crisis - large-scale asset purchases, or to put the matter more generically, use of the central bank's balance sheet as a distinct...

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Optimal Monetary Policy in a 'Sudden Stop'

Braggion, Fabio - 2010

In the wake of the 1997-98 financial crises, interest rates in Asia were raised immediately, and then reduced sharply. We describe an environment in which this is the optimal monetary policy. The optimality of the immediate rise in the interest rate is an example of the theory of the second...

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