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Thierfelder, Felix - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …

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Does anticipation of government spending matter? Evidence from an expectation augmented VAR

Tenhofen, Jörn; Wolff, Guntram B. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

How does private consumption react to an exogenous increase in government expenditure? Standard structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) usually report a positive GDP as well as consumption response, while event studies report a negative consumption response. We investigate in a SVAR whether...

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The macroeconomic effects of exogenous fiscal policy shocks in Germany: a disaggregated SVAR analysis

Wolff, Guntram B.; Tenhofen, Jörn; Heppke-Falk, Kirsten H. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006

We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal policy shocks on the German economy following the SVAR approach by Blanchard and Perotti (2002). We find that direct government expenditure shocks increase output and private consumption on impact with low statistical significance, while they...

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The role of real wage rigidity and labor market frictions for unemployment and inflation dynamics

Christoffel, Kai; Linzert, Tobias - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2006

In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock and investigate how labor market frictions affect the transmission process of monetary policy. The...

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Opting out of the great inflation: German monetary policy after the breakdown of Bretton Woods

Beyer, Andreas; Gaspar, Vítor; Gerberding, Christina; … - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

During the turbulent 1970s and 1980s the Bundesbank established an outstanding reputation in the world of central banking. Germany achieved a high degree of domestic stability and provided safe haven for investors in times of turmoil in the international financial system. Eventually the...

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Taylor rules for the euro area: the issue of real-time data

Gerdesmeier, Dieter; Roffia, Barbara - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

Recently, a number of studies have made an attempt to deal with the key issue of the incompleteness of information available to the central bank when taking its monetary policy decisions. This study adds to this literature by tackling the problem with regard to the euro area. The analysis is...

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Monetary and fiscal policy rules in a model with capital accumulation and potentially non-superneutral money

von Thadden, Leopold - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002

We consider the properties of two monetary policy rules (monetary targeting, Taylor-type interest rate rule) in an intertemporal equilibrium model with capital accumulation and two outside assets (government bonds, fiat money). The paper shows that the long-run behaviour of the economy depends...

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Interest rate reaction functions for the euro area Evidence from panel data analysis

Ruth, Karsten - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004

As of today, estimating interest rate reaction functions for the Euro Area is hampered by the short time span since the conduct of a single monetary policy. In this paper we circumvent the common use of aggregated data before 1999 by estimating interest rate reaction functions based on a panel...

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Exchange rate dynamics, expectations, and monetary policy

Chen, Qianying - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2011

This paper re-investigates the implications of monetary policy rules on changes in exchange rate, in a risk-adjusted, uncovered interest parity model with unrestricted parameters, emphasizing the importance of modeling market expectations of monetary policy. I use consensus forecasts as a proxy...

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Pitfalls in the European Enlargement Process: Financial Instability and Real Divergence

Wagner, Helmut - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002

Many of the EU accession countries have announced that they will not only try to enter the EU as quickly as possible but also to adopt the euro at an early date. This is justified by the effort to avoid the danger of financial instability in the period prior to euro-introduction. However, by...

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