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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565633
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European Central Bank
Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013
We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724004
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246072
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578
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Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking, securitization, and their role for US business cycle fluctuations
Peersman, Gert; Wagner, Wolf - 2014
Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary … type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a permanent rise in real GDP and a fall in inflation. Bank … using a model of bank risk-taking and securitization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010257361