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Optimal degrees of transparency in monetary policymaking
Jensen, Henrik - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2001
Den meisten Akademikern und politischen Entscheidungsträgern zufolge ist Transparenz in der Geldpolitik wünschenswert …. In diesem Fall kann Transparenz negative Folgen haben. Sie kann sich sogar als eine die Geldpolitik verzerrende …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083135
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Maturity shortening and market failure
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535438
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083242
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083253
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An affine macro-finance term structure model for the euro area
Lemke, Wolfgang - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007
A joint model of macroeconomic and term structure dynamics is specified and estimated for the euro area. The model comprises a backward-looking Phillips curve, a dynamic IS equation, a monetary policy rule as well as a specification of the dynamics of trend growth and the natural real interest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083055
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Central Bank accountability and transparency: theory and some evidence
Eijffinger, Sylvester C. W.; Hoeberichts, Marco - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2000
accountability of the ECB with some other central banks (Bank of Canada, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and the Federal Reserve … Japan, Bank of England und Federal Reserve System). Im zweiten Teil stellen wir eine Theorie über die Rechenschaftspflicht … Geldpolitik und die Frage, wer die endgültige Verantwortung für die Geldpolitik trägt. Das Papier zeigt auf, dass die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083087
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The relationship between the federal funds rate and the Fed's federal funds rate target: is it open market or open mouth operations?
Thornton, Daniel L. - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2000
It is widely believed that the Fed controls the funds rate by altering the degree of pressure in the reserve market through open market operations when it changes its target for the federal funds rate. Recently, however, several economists have suggested that open market operations may not be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083145
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The reliability of Canadian output gap estimates
Cayen, Jean-Philippe; van Norden, Simon - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2004
Recent work on policy rules under uncertainty have highlighted the impact of output gap measurement errors on economic outcomes and their importance in the formulation of appropriate policy rules. This paper investigates the reliability of current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083193
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Interbank lending and monetary policy transmission: evidence for Germany
Ehrmann, Michael; Worms, Andreas - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2001
This paper presents empirical evidence on the behaviour of interbank lending in Germany after a monetary policy impulse. Our VAR analysis shows that following a monetary contraction, the banking system as a whole attracts additional funds from foreign banks. Whereas small cooperative and savings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083202
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Cost-Push Shocks and Monetary Policy and Monetary Policy
Sutherland, Alan - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2002
Geldpolitik in einem 2-Länder-Modell mit träger Preisanpassung. Neben einem Cost-Push-Schock erlebt jedes Land auch …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083233