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Asset prices, collateral, and unconventional monetary policy in a DSGE model

Hilberg, Björn; Hollmayr, Josef - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

In this paper we set up a New-Keynesian model with a heterogenous banking sector to analyze liquidity problems on the interbank market. The presence of an interbank market is essential to consider a situation where an increased liquidity supply by the central bank is only partially passed on to...

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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...

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Deciding to peg the exchange rate in developing countries: the role of private-sector debt

Harms, Philipp; Hoffmann, Mathias - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2009

We argue that a higher share of the private sector in a country's external debt raises the incentive to stabilize the exchange rate. We present a simple model in which exchange rate volatility does not affect agents' welfare if all the debt is incurred by the government. Once we introduce...

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Optimal monetary policy in a small open economy with financial frictions

Merola, Rossana - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2010

I analyze how the introduction of financial frictions can affect the trade-off between output stabilization and inflation stability and whether, in the presence of financial frictions, the optimal outcome can be realized or approached more closely if monetary policy is allowed to react to...

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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...

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Money-based interest rate rules: lessons from German data

Gerberding, Christina; Seitz, Franz; Worms, Andreas - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2007

The paper derives the monetary policy reaction function implied by money growth targeting. It consists of an interest rate response to deviations of the inflation rate from target, to the change in the output gap, to money demand shocks and to the lagged interest rate. In the second part, it is...

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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 …

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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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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...

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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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