Similar Search Results

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005530784

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005530804

Understanding global liquidity

Eickmeier, Sandra; Gambacorta, Leonardo; Hofmann, Boris - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and … macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common … global factors in the dynamics of liquidity indicators. By imposing theoretically motivated sign restrictions on factor …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957104

Monetary policy and the oil futures market

Eickmeier, Sandra; Lombardi, Marco J. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

We assess the transmission of monetary policy shocks on oil prices using a VAR model. We identify monetary policy and financial activity shocks disentangled from demand and oil supply shocks using sign restrictions. We obtain the following main findings. (i) Monetary policy and financial...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957148

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344903

Monetary policy, housing booms and financial (im)balances

Eickmeier, Sandra; Hofmann, Boris - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

This paper uses a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) estimated on U.S. data in order to analyze monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to explore the role of monetary policy in the three...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595899

Macroeconomic factors and micro-level bank risk

Buch, Claudia M.; Eickmeier, Sandra; Prieto, Esteban - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

The interplay between banks and the macroeconomy is of key importance for financial and economic stability. We analyze this link using a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model (FAVAR) which extends a standard VAR for the U.S. macroeconomy. The model includes GDP growth, inflation, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727825

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816250

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005816268

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541287