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Bolt, Wilko; Foote, Elizabeth; Schmiedel, Heiko - European Central Bank - 2011

We consider debit and credit card networks. Our contribution is to introduce the role of consumer credit into these payment networks, and to assess the way this affects competition and equilibrium fees. We analyze a situation in which overdrafts are associated with current accounts and debit...

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Does it pay to have the euro? Italy’s politics and financial markets under the lira and the euro

Fratzscher, Marcel; Stracca, Livio - European Central Bank - 2009

There is a broad consensus that the quality of the political system and its institutionsare fundamental for a country’s prosperity. The paper focuses on political events inItaly over the past 35 years and asks whether the adoption of the euro in 1999 hashelped insulate Italy’s financial...

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Optimal monetary policy in a model of the credit channel

De Fiore, Fiorella; Tristani, Oreste - European Central Bank - 2009

We consider a simple extension of the basic new-Keynesian setup in which we relaxthe assumption of frictionless financial markets. In our economy, asymmetricinformation and default risk lead banks to optimally charge a lending rate above therisk-free rate. Our contribution is threefold. First,...

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The pricing of subprime mortgage risk in good times and bad: evidence from the ABX.HE indices

Fender, Ingo; Scheicher, Martin - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data forthe ABX.HE family of indices, which have become a key barometer of mortgage marketconditions during the recent financial crisis. After an introduction into ABX index mechanicsand a discussion of...

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The term structure of equity premia in an affine arbitrage-free model of bond and stock market dynamics

Lemke, Wolfgang; Werner, Thomas - European Central Bank - 2009

We estimate time-varying expected excess returns on the US stock market from 1983to 2008 using a model that jointly captures the arbitrage-free dynamics of stockreturns and nominal bond yields. The model nests the class of affine term structure (ofinterest rates) models. Stock returns and bond...

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Housing Finance in the Euro Area.

Drudi, Francesco; Köhler-Ulbrich, Petra; Protopapa, Marco - European Central Bank - 2009

This report analyses the main developments in housing finance in the euro area in the decade, covering the period from 1999 to 2007. It looks at mortgage indebtedness, various characteristics of loans for house purchase, the funding of such loans and the spreads between the interest rates on...

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The Role of Short Rates and Foreign Long Rates in the Determination of Long-Term Interest Rates

Fell, J.P.C. - European Central Bank - 1996

This study examines the changing relationship between domestic long-term , domestic short-term and foreign long-term interest rates.

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Empirical assessment of Monetary Policy Instruments and Procedures (MPIP) in EU Countries.

Escriva, J.L.; Fagan, F.P. - European Central Bank - 1996

This paper provides empirical evidence on the use of monetary policy instruments and procedures (MPIP) in EU countries. In particular, it focuses on three important issues which arise in this context. Fist, we examine the structural position of the EU money markets. Second , evidence is...

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Acquisition versus greenfield: the impact of the mode of foreign bank entry on information and bank lending rates

Claeys, Sophie; Hainz, Christa - European Central Bank - 2006

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study how different entry modes affect the interest rate for loans in a model in which domestic banks possess private information about their incumbent clients but foreign banks have...

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The distribution of households consumption-expenditure budget shares

Barigozzi, Matteo; Alessi, Lucia; Capasso, Marco; … - European Central Bank - 2009

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditurebudget share distributions —defined … as the share of household total expenditure spentfor purchasing a specific category of commodities— for a large sample of … Italianhouseholds in the period 1989-2004. We find that household budget share distributionsare fairly stable over time for each …

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