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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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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 policy, macroprudential policy and banking stability: evidence from the euro area

Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - European Central Bank - 2013

crisis, and of the provision of central bank liquidity during the crisis. Exploiting the euro area institutional setting for … helped to soften lending conditions that were tightened because of bank capital and liquidity constraints, especially for … business loans. Importantly, this softening effect is stronger for banks that borrow more long-term liquidity from the …

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Heterogeneous transmission mechanism: monetary policy and financial fragility in the euro area

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - European Central Bank - 2013

The Euro area economic activity and banking sector have shown substantial fragility over the last years with remarkable country heterogeneity. Using detailed data on lending conditions and standards, we analyse how financial fragility has affected the transmission mechanism of the single Euro...

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Bank risk-taking, securitization, supervision and low interest rates: Evidence from the euro area and the U.S. lending standards

Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - European Central Bank - 2010

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short-term interest rates soften standards, for household and corporate loans. This softening – especially for mortgages – is amplified by securitization activity, weak supervision...

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How does the ECB allot liquidity in its weekly main refinancing operations? A look at the empirical evidence

Stracca, Livio; Ejerskov, Steen; Martin Moss, Clara - European Central Bank - 2003

This model provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to … understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been … deviations of the overnight rate from the main refinancing rate. Moreover, the paper finds that liquidity has affected the …

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