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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 … political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union implies that member states had to transfer or at least curtail their … impact of political shocks on the domestic economy of member states but magnified the transmission of political shocks within …

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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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What is global excess liquidity, and does it matter?

Rüffer, Rasmus; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2006

global excess liquidity to the global economy, including possible cross-border spill-over effects to a number of domestic …

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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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Housing, consumption and monetary policy: how different are the US and the euro area?

Musso, Alberto; Neri, Stefano; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2010

, (ii) credit supply and (iii) housing demand shocks on the housing market and the broader economy. We find that …

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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 provided by the ECB in a neutral and smooth manner, but...

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The rise of China and India: blessing or curse for the advanced countries?

Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2013

This paper evaluates the impact of the rise of large emerging manufacturing exporters such as China and India on economic growth in advanced countries. After illustrating the possible theoretical channels, I estimate a growth regression based on 3-year average data augmented with...

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