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Laeven, Luc; Draghi, Mario; Dombret, Andreas R.; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum; Deutsche …; … - 2016

On 3 December EY hosted a SUERF conference on banking reform with Sir Howard Davies, the Chairman of RBS, and Dame Colette Bowe, the Chairman of the Banking Standards Board, as the two keynote speakers. Professor David Miles (Imperial College) gave the SUERF 2015 Annual Lecture on Capital and...

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The political economy under monetary union: has the euro made a difference?

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2008

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

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Does liquidity matter? Properties of a synthetic divisia monetary aggregate in the euro area

Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2001

M3. More in general, the paper lends further support to the view that money and 'liquidity' should be assigned an …

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Should we take inside money seriously?

Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2007

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices, in which "inside" money, made out of commercial banks’ liabilities, plays an active, structural role role. It is shown that, in such a model, an inside money shock has a well-defined meaning. A calibrated version of...

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Persistence, the transmission mechanism and robust monetary policy

Angeloni, Ignazio; Coenen, Günter; Smets, Frank - European Central Bank - 2003

In this paper we first explore the impact of nominal and real persistence on the transmission process of various shocks in an estimated DSGE model of euro area. We then analyse its impact on optimal monetary policy and investigate the performance of various monetary policies when the policy...

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What is global excess liquidity, and does it matter?

Rüffer, Rasmus; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2006

liquidity”, a concept which has attracted considerable attention in recent years. The contribution of this paper is threefold …. First, we present some conceptual discussion on the meaning of excess liquidity in advanced countries with developed … excess liquidity and spill-overs between them for a relatively large sample of industrialised and developing countries. Third …

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Non-standard central bank loss functions, skewed risks, and certainty equivalence

al-Nowaihi, Ali; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2002

This paper sets out to investigate the role of additive uncertainty under plausible non-standard central bank loss functions over future inflation. Building on a substantial body of evidence in the economic psychology literature, this paper postulates (i) period-by-period loss functions that are...

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Housing, consumption and monetary policy: how different are the US and the euro area?

Musso, Alberto; Neri, Stefano; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2010

The paper provides a systematic empirical analysis of the role of the housing market in the macroeconomy in the US and in the euro area. First, it establishes some stylised facts concerning key variables in the housing market, such as the real house price, residential investment and mortgage...

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Housing finance and monetary policy

Calza, Alessandro; Stracca, Livio; Monacelli, Tommaso - European Central Bank - 2009

We study how the structure of housing finance affects the transmission of monetary policy shocks. We document three main facts: first, the features of residential mortgage markets differ markedly across industrialized countries; second, and ac- cording to a wide range of indicators, the...

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Monetary Transmission in the Euro Area : Where Do We Stand?

Mojon, Benoît; Kashyap, Anil K.; Angeloni, Ignazio; … - European Central Bank - 2002

Drawing on recent Eurosystem research that uses a range of econometric techniques and a number of new data sets, we propose a comprehensive description of how monetary policy affects the euro area economy. We focus mainly on three questions: (1) what are the stylised facts concerning the...

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