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Lessons for monetary policy: What should the consensus be?

Issing, Otmar - Center for Financial Studies - 2011

in the ECB's encompassing approach, helps prevent these potentially harmful side effects and thus allows for fostering …

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Complexity and monetary policy

Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - Center for Financial Studies - 2012

simple interest rate rule is employed to interpret ECB policy since 1999. An evaluation of alternative policy rules across 11 … growth as the one used to interpret ECB policy is quite robust as long as it responds to current outcomes of these variables. …

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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...

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Measuring financial asset return and volatilty spillovers, with application to global equity markets

Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

We provide a simple and intuitive measure of interdependence of asset returns and/or volatilities. In particular, we formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes,...

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The dynamics of spillover effects during the European sovereign debt turmoil

Alter, Adrian; Beyer, Andreas - Center for Financial Studies - 2012

transmission from or to sovereigns and banks are aggregated as a Contagion index (CI). This index is disentangled into four …) vice-versa. We highlight the impact of policy-related events along the different components of the contagion index. The …

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Measuring financial asset return and volatility spillovers, with application to global equity markets

Diebold, Francis X.; Yilmaz, Kamil - Center for Financial Studies - 2007

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Financial contagion: Spillovers through banking centers

Van Rijckeghem, Caroline; Weder, Beatrice - Center for Financial Studies - 1999

This paper presents evidence that spillovers through shifts in bank lending can help explain the pattern of contagion … incidence of a currency crisis. In the Russian crisis, the common bank lender helps to predict the incidence of contagion but … may be more important in explaining contagion than similarities in macro-economic fundamentals and even than trade …

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Economic integration and the exchange rate regime: How damaging are currency crises?

Weber, Axel A.; Beck, Günter W. - Center for Financial Studies - 2003

We use consumer price data for 205 cities/regions in 21 countries to study PPP deviations before, during and after the major currency crises of the 1990s. We combine data from industrialized nations in North America (Unites States, Canada and Mexico), Europe (Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal),...

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The cost of firms' debt financing

Pianeselli, Daniele; Zaghini, Andrea - Center for Financial Studies - 2013

We provide an assessment of the determinants of the risk premia paid by non-financial corporations on long-term bonds. By looking at 5,500 issues over the period 2005-2012, we find that in recent years the sovereign debt market turbulence has been a major driver of corporate risk. Compared with...

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