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The paper analyses and compares the role that the tightening in liquidity conditions and the collapse in risk appetite … empirical exercise with a Global VAR approach, the findings highlight the diversity of the transmission process. While liquidity … shocks have had a more severe impact on advanced economies, it was mainly the decline in risk appetite that affected emerging …
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finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on … risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that common …
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trend in yield differentials, which is correlated with a measure of aggregate risk. In contrast, liquidity differentials … differentials should increase in both liquidity and risk, with an interaction term of the opposite sign. Testing these predictions … on daily data, we find that the aggregate risk factor is consistently priced, liquidity differentials are priced for a …
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The paper analyses the transmission of liquidity shocks and risk shocks to global financial markets. Using a Global VAR … strong during the 2010-11 sovereign debt crisis, with risk shocks driving down bond yields in key advanced economies. The …
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, when the fraction of qualified owners is smaller, or when risk aversion, volatility, or hedging demand are larger. Supply …
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In response to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, many central banks are getting involved in macroprudential supervision. Central bank communication will constitute a central policy tool for that purpose. The paper asks how such communication will affect financial markets, exploiting the fact...
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The first part of the paper analyzes the inflationary risks associated with price liberalization, the welfare costs of inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the low credibility of stabilization policies and a...
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Some central banks have a reputation for being secretive. A justification for this behaviour that we find in the literature is that being transparent about operations and beliefs hinders the central bank in achieving the best outcome. In other words, a central bank needs flexibility and...
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The establishment of the European Central Bank (ECB) presents a rare opportunity to define the operations of a central bank with no prior track record. Before the ECB specifies an, as yet undefined, operational target this paper asks what might be learnt from the recent experience of inflation...
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Repo auctions are multiunit auctions regularly used by central banks to inject liquidity into the banking sector. Banks …
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