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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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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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Substitution between domestic and foreign currency loans in Central Europe. Do central banks matter?

Brzoza-Brzezina, Michał; Chmielewski, Tomasz; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper we ask a question about the impact of monetary policy on total bank lending in the presence of a developed market for foreign currency denominated loans and potential substitutability between domestic and foreign currency loans. Our results, based on a panel of three biggest...

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Bank risks, risk preferences and lending

Chmielewski, Tomasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

The recent debate on the impact of capital regulation on bank behaviour shows that risk exposures of banks might influence the amount of loans newly granted to the non-financial sector. The paper extends the traditional set of bank-specific variables used in testing for the bank lending channel...

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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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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 …

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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...

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Interest rate pass-through in the Polish banking sector and bank-specific financial disturbances

Chmielewski, Tomasz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

The purpose of this study is to assess the impact of disturbances in operation of the Polish banking sector on the effectiveness of monetary policy implementation. The pass-through mechanism from market interest rates to retail interest rates, offered by banks to their customers, is analysed in...

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