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Wealth and asset price effects on economic activity

Altissimo, Filippo; Georgiou, Evaggelia; Sastre, Teresa; … - European Central Bank - 2005

Do asset prices affect real activity? This question has taken on a new importance in recent years, as asset values first surged at the end of 1990s and, thereafter, dramatically retreated. This report reviews the available theoretical and empirical evidence regarding asset price and wealth...

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IMF lending and geopolitics

Reynaud, Julien; Vauday, Julien - European Central Bank - 2008

There is growing awareness that the distribution of IMF facilities may not be influenced only by the economic needs of the borrowers. This paper focuses on the fact that the IMF may favour geopolitically important countries in the distribution of IMF loans, differentiating between concessional...

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Factor analysis in a New-Keynesian model

Beyer, Andreas; Farmer, Roger E. A.; Henry, Jérôme; … - European Central Bank - 2005

New-Keynesian models are characterized by the presence of expectations as explanatory variables. To use these models for policy evaluation, the econometrician must estimate the parameters of expectation terms. Standard estimation methods have several drawbacks, including possible lack of...

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Implications for liquidity from innovation and transparency in the European corporate bond market

Laganá, Marco; Perina, Martin; Köppen-Mertes, Isabel von - European Central Bank - 2006

This paper offers a new framework for the assessment of financial market liquidity and identifies two types: search … liquidity and systemic liquidity. Search liquidity, i.e. liquidity in “normal” times, is driven by search costs required for a … trader to find a willing buyer for an asset he/she is trying to sell or vice versa. Search liquidity is asset specific …

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Market based compensation, price informativeness and short-term trading

Calcagno, Riccardo; Heider, Florian - European Central Bank - 2007

. This trade-off generates a number of insights about the impact of market conditions, e.g. liquidity and trading horizons …

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Capital flows, push versus pull factors and the global financial crisis

Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2011

finds that common shocks – key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk – have exerted a large effect …

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The price of liquidity: the effects of market conditions and bank characteristics

Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - European Central Bank - 2011

We study the prices that individual banks pay for liquidity (captured by borrowing rates in repos with the central bank … depend in particular on the distribution of liquidity across banks, which is calculated over time using individual banklevel … data on reserve requirements and actual holdings. Banks pay more for liquidity when positions are more imbalanced across …

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Commonality in hedge fund returns: driving factors and implications

Bussière, Matthieu; Hoerova, Marie; Klaus, Benjamin - European Central Bank - 2014

We measure the commonality in hedge fund returns, identify its main driving factor and analyse its implications for financial stability. We find that hedge funds’ commonality increased significantly from 2003 until 2006. We attribute this rise mainly to the increase in hedge funds’ exposure...

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Interbank lending, credit risk premia and collateral

Heider, Florian; Hoerova, Marie - European Central Bank - 2009

We study the functioning of secured and unsecured inter-bank markets in the presence of credit risk. The model generates empirical predictions that are in line with developments during the 2007-2009 financial crises. Interest rates decouple across secured and unsecured markets following an...

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Liquidity (risk) concepts: definitions and interactions

Nikolaou, Kleopatra - European Central Bank - 2009

We discuss the notion of liquidity and liquidity risk within the financial system. We distinguish between three … different liquidity types, central bank liquidity, funding and market liquidity and their relevant risks. In order to understand … the workings of financial system liquidity, as well as the role of the central bank, we bring together relevant literature …

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