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Volatility patterns of CDS, bond and stock markets before and during the financial crisis : evidence from major financial institutions

Belke, Ansgar; Gokus, Christian - 2011

This study is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of large banks during the recent financial crisis. What is common to most of the empirical studies in this field is that they concentrate on modeling the conditional mean. However,...

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A more effective euro area monetary policy than OMTs : gold-backed sovereign debt

Belke, Ansgar - 2013

This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area … in the context of the euro crisis. This move is then compared to the ECB’s now terminated Securities Market Programme …

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(How) do the ECB and the fed react to financial market uncertainty? : the Taylor rule in times of crisis

Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2010

We assess differences that emerge in Taylor rule estimations for the Fed and the ECB before and after the start of the subprime crisis. For this purpose, we apply an explicit estimate of the equilibrium real interest rate and of potential output in order to account for variations within these...

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Equilibrium real interest rates, secular stagnation, and the financial cycle : empirical evidence for euro-area member countries

Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2018

Is the Euro area as a whole, or are individual Euro-area member countries facing a period of sustained lower economic …, we expand our model to incorporate the financial cycle. We estimate the model for the Euro area as a whole and for nine … Euro-area member countries. Incorporating the financial cycle changes the estimated equilibrium real interest rates: For …

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Long-term interest rate spillovers from major advanced economies to emerging Asia

Belke, Ansgar; Dubova, Irina; Volz, Ulrich - 2016

This paper explores the extent to which changes to long-term interest rates in major advanced economies have influenced long-term government bond yields in Emerging Asia. To gauge long-term interest spillover effects, the paper uses VAR variance decompositions with high frequency data. Our...

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Finance access of SMEs : what role for the ECB?

Belke, Ansgar - 2013

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) of southern euro-area economies (e.g. Italy, Spain) pay significantly higher … market failures prevent SMEs in southern euro area countries from access to key inputs, in particular access to finance. This …

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Exit strategies and their impact on the Euro area : a model based view

Belke, Ansgar - 2014

This paper comments on the pros and cons of exit strategies. The focus is on the impact on the Euro area economy of the … impact of the Fed’s exit from UMP in 2014 on the Euro area economy using new and innovative global IMF models. Finally …

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How much fiscal backing must the ECB have? : the euro area is not the Philippines

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

losses. Thirdly, the ECB can draw on substantial reserves of the euro area national banks. …

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Financial crisis, global liquidity and monetary exit strategies

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

technically out of reach within the euro area. …

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Modifying Taylor reaction functions in presence of the zero-lower-bound : evidence for the ECB and the Fed

Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2012

We propose an alternative way of estimating Taylor reaction functions if the zero-lowerbound on nominal interest rates is binding. This approach relies on tackling the real rather than the nominal interest rate. So if the nominal rate is (close to) zero central banks can influence the inflation...

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