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Does monetary policy matter for corporate governance? Firm-level evidence for India

Ghosh, Saibal; Sensarma, Rudra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

The paper assembles data on over 1,000 manufacturing and services firms in India for the entire post-reform period from 1992 through 2002 to examine the association between corporate governance and monetary policy. The findings suggests that (a) public firms are relatively more responsive to a...

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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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Industry Effects of Monetary Policy: Evidence from India

Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The study exploits 2-digit level industry data for the period 1981-2004 to ascertain the interlinkage between a monetary policy shock and industry value added. Accordingly, we first estimate a Vector Auto Regression (VAR) model to ascertain the magnitude of a monetary policy shock on industrial...

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Basel II and bank lending behavior: some likely implications for monetary policy

Nachane, Dilip; Ghosh, Saibal; Ray, Partha - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

the relative liquidity of banks’ balance sheets. The basic model is empirically explored using data on Indian commercial …

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Monetary policy and bank behavior: Empirical evidence from India

Ghosh, Saibal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

The paper develops an empirical model to explore the role that bank characteristics play in influencing the monetary transmission process. Employing data on Indian commercial banks for the period 1992-2004, the findings indicate that for banks classified according to size and capitalization, a...

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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 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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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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