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Are there differences in the effectiveness of quantitative easing at the zero-lower-bound in Japan over time?

Michaelis, Henrike; Watzka, Sebastian - 2014

Using a time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) with a new sign restriction framework, we study the changing effectiveness of the Bank of Japan's Quantitative Easing policies over time. We analyse the Zero-Interest Rate Policy from 1999 to 2000, the Quantitative Easing Policy from...

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Transparency, flexibility and macroeconomic stabilization

Geraats, Petra M. - 2014

Many central banks have become more transparent during the last decade, in particular about macroeconomic prospects. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic shocks. In particular, it allows central banks to...

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Asset allocation and monetary policy : evidence from the eurozone

Hau, Harald; Lai, Sandy - 2014

The eurozone has a single short-term nominal interest rate, but monetary policy conditions measured by real short-term interest rates varied substantially across countries in the period 2003 - 2010. We use this cross-country variation in the (local) tightness of monetary policy to examine its...

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Does institutional change really matter? : inflation targets, central bank reform and interest rate policy in the OECD countries

Muscatelli, V. Anton; Tirelli, Patrizio; Trecroci, Carmine - 2000

We estimate forward-looking interest-rate reaction functions for the G3 economies and for a group of countries which recently adopted inflation targets. Some significant shifts in the conduct of monetary policy are detected in the G3 countries, especially in the US A and Japan. In contrast with...

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Analyzing structural reforms using a behavioral macroeconomic model

De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017

We use a behavioral macroeconomic model to analyze how structural reforms affect the economy in the short and in the … second one raises potential output in the economy. We find that structural reforms that increase the flexibility of wages and … rigid economy. Finally, we analyze how structural reforms change the tradeoffs between output and inflation variability. Our …

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Systematic monetary policy and the macroeconomic effects of shifts in loan-to-value ratios

Bachmann, Ruediger; Rüth, Sebastian - 2017

What are the macroeconomic consequences of changing aggregate lending standards in residential mortgage markets, as measured by loan-to-value (LTV) ratios? In a structural VAR, GDP and business investment increase following an expansionary LTV shock. Residential investment, by contrast, falls, a...

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Central bank policies and financial markets : lessons from the Euro crisis

Mody, Ashoka; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2018 - This version: November 20, 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we identify financial markets' response to the...

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The effects of climate change on a small open economy

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2019

We investigate the impact of climate change on the macroeconomic performance of a small open economy. The setup is a … new Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy without monetary policy independence in … which a climate module that interacts with the economy has been incorporated. The model is solved numerically using common …

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Commodity price shocks and global cycles : monetary policy matters

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Mori, Lorenzo; Peersman, Gert - 2024

We employ a structural VAR model with global and US variables to study the relevance and transmission of oil, food commodities, and industrial input price shocks. We show that commodities are not all alike. Industrial input price changes are almost entirely endogenous responses to other shocks....

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Carbon pricing and inflation expectations : evidence from France

Hensel, Jannik; Mangiante, Giacomo; Moretti, Luca - 2023

This paper examines the impact of carbon pricing on firms' inflation expectations and its implications for central banks' price stability mandate. Carbon policy shocks are identified using high-frequency identification and combined with French firm-level survey data. A change in carbon price...

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