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From the onset of the 2007-2009 crisis, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank have aggressively lowered … interest rates. Both sets of changes are at odds with an anti-inflationary stance of monetary policy; indeed, as the crisis … Taylor rules for our economy that are consistent with a strong pro-inflationary reaction during financial crisis while …
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financial crisis, but had a negligible impact on uncollateralised debt issuance decisions. JEL Classification: G21, G01, G15 …
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Does the general public know what central banks do? Is this kind of knowledge relevant? Using a survey of Dutch households, we investigate these questions for the case of the European Central Bank (ECB). Our findings suggest that knowledge on the ECB’s objectives is far from perfect. Both a...
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-to-quality effect. Common news about the euro crisis and news about specific countries itself tend to raise the covariance of yields … between distressed countries, indicating potential crisis spillover effects. However, we do not detect spillover effects from … Markets Programme (SMP) mitigate the negative crisis spillovers among the distressed countries and reduce the flight …
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Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …
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and after the start of the current financial crisis. The study finds, first, that bond yield spreads before and during the … crisis can largely be explained on the basis of economic principles. Second, markets penalise fiscal imbalances much more … US which they did not have before the crisis. These findings underpin the need for achieving sound fiscal positions in …
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Between the start of the economic and financial crisis in 2008, and early 2010, almost four million jobs were lost in … and remains at around three million workers below the pre-crisis level. However, in comparison with the severity of the … labour hoarding in several euro area countries. While the crisis has, so far, had a more limited or shorter-lived impact in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688319
crisis since mid-2007. We also find that there is some tendency of the yield movements to be larger when the demand for the …
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We find evidence that adopting an explicit inflation objective plays a role in anchoring long-run inflation expectations and in reducing the intrinsic persistence of inflation. For the period 1994-2003, private-sector long-run inflation forecasts exhibit significant correlation with lagged...
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The aim of this study is to assess empirically to what extent the degree of heterogeneity of consumers’ inflation perceptions and expectations is driven by the flow of information related to current and future price developments in the euro area. We conduct the analysis both on an aggregate...
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