This paper provides an overview of supply and demand factors influencing the availability of euro-denominated debt instruments that qualify as high-quality liquid assets (HQLA) in the euro area. The paper estimates the supply of HQLA issued by the public and private sectors as well as the...

We build a small open-economy model with partial financial dollarization--households hold wealth in domestic currency and a foreign currency; firms also have a balance sheet mismatch as in Gertler, Gilchrist and Natalucci (2001). The degree of dollarization is endogenous to the extent of...

In this paper we estimate a Bayesian SDGE model using the computer program "Dynare" by Michel Juillard. We present an estimated open economy version of a model for the Euro area. This is an extension of the SDGE model by Smets and Wouters (2003). Based on input/output tables we present a number...

The paper studies the conduct of monetary policy, in a simple new Keynesian model, with adaptive learning on the part of the private sector. A key feature is that even though we start out with a linear “structural†model, the system and hence policy responses inherit the non-linear...

This paper aims to evaluate the importance of frictions in credit markets for business cycles in the U.S. and the Euro area. For this purpose, I modify the DSGE financial accelerator model developed by Bernanke, Gertler and Gilchrist (1999) and estimate it using Bayesian methods. The model is...

In recent years, the learnability of rational expectations equilibria (REE) and determinacy of economic structures have rightfully joined the usual performance criteria among the sought after goals of policy design. And while some contributions to the literature (for example Bullard and Mitra...

In this paper we extend the analysis of the italian segment of the European money market in two ways. First we investigate differences in the activities of banks of different size. Secondly we extend the analysis to the structure of the connections among banks and it's change over time. As...

We study individual evolutionary learning in the setup developed by Deissenberg and Gonzalez (2002). They study a version of the Kydland-Prescott model in which in each time period monetary authority optimizes weighted payoff function (with selfishness parameter as a weight on its own and...

The recent literature on monetary policy has questioned the use of linear Phillips curves and the assumption of a constant NAIRU. In this paper we explore monetary policy considering different shapes of the Phillips curve and an endogenous NAIRU. The NAIRU is, as recent papers suggest, made...

This paper is of interest for two reasons. First, it provides a simple algorithm for solving an optimal control problem in which the law of motion of the economy is a Markov regime-switching vector autoregression. Second, it applies this algorithm to study optimal monetary policy in a stylised...