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information and news channel. A novelty of the study is its use of data from Google Analytics on ECB website traffic as proxy for … communication on the information demand of the public and ultimately on inflation expectations. Overall, this study shows that …-term professional inflation expectations. Our findings add to the theoretical evidence on the existence of an information and news …
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We study the impact of diverse beliefs on conduct of monetary policy. We use a New Keynesian Model solved with a quadratic approximation. Aggregation renders the belief distribution an aggregate state variable. Diverse expectations change standard results about a smooth trade-off between...
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We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three …
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We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three …
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We analyze the degree of anchoring of inflation expectations in the euro area during the post-crisis period, with a focus on the time span from 2014 onwards when long-term beliefs have substantially drifted away from the policy target. Using a new estimation technique, we look at tail...
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
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This paper examines how monetary expansion causes asset bubbles. When there is no monetary expansion, a bubbly asset is not created due to a hold-up problem. Monetary expansion increases buyers' money holdings, and then, dealers are willing to buy a worthless asset from sellers, in hopes of...
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This study provides new evidence on the relationship between unconventional monetary policy and auction cycles in the euro area. Using proprietary data on purchases of public sector securities implemented by the Eurosystem, the paper examines the flow effects of asset purchase programmes on...
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signals, we show that the release of more precise public information about future rates lowers the informativeness of market …. However, when the increase in precision of public information is sufficiently large, uncertainty is unambiguously reduced. …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence that bears on the efficacy of unconventional monetary policies when the main policy rate is negative. When a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) is deployed in concert with rate forward guidance (FG) and quantitative easing (QE), the identification of...
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