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The reception of public signals in financial marketswhat if central bank communication becomes stale?
Ehrmann, Michael; Sondermann, David - European Central Bank - 2009
-term interest rates to the Bank of England’s inflation report andto macroeconomic announcements. Due to the quarterly frequency at …, the more timehas elapsed since the latest release of an inflation report, market volatility shouldincrease, the price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866483
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Open Market Operations in EU Countries.
Aspetsberger, A. - European Central Bank - 1996
The increasing weight of open market transactions in central bank operations and the widening use of purchase agreements underlines a progress towards convergence of monetary policy instruments and procedures in EU countries. This paper presents a survey of features of open market operations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641236
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005641237
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Asset price misalignments and the role of money and credit
Gerdesmeier, Dieter; Reimers, Hans-Eggert; Roffia, Barbara - European Central Bank - 2009
This paper contributes to the literature on the properties of money and creditindicators for detecting asset price misalignments. After a review of the evidence inthe literature on this issue, the paper discusses the approaches that can be consideredto detect asset price busts. Considering a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866513
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National prices and wage setting in a currency union
Sánchez, Marcelo - European Central Bank - 2009
Existing work on wage bargaining (as exemplified by Cukierman and Lippi, 2001) typicallypredicts more aggressive wage setting under monetary union. This insight has not beenconfirmed by the EMU experience, which has been characterised by wage moderation,thereby eliciting criticism from Posen and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866574
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Analysing banking sector conditions - how to use macro-prudential indicators
Mörttinen, Leena; Poloni, Paolo; Sandars, Patrick; … - European Central Bank - 2005
This paper presents the methodological and statistical framework for macro-prudential analysis of the financial condition of the EU banking sector that has been adopted by the European System of Central Banks (ESCB). The framework is also a central component of broader financial stability...
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Downward wage rigidity and optimal steady-state inflation
Fagan, Gabriel; Messina, Julián - European Central Bank - 2009
This paper examines the impact of downward wage rigidity (nominal and real) onoptimal steady-state inflation. For this … andFinland). The calibrated heterogeneous agent models are then solved for differentsteady state rates of inflation to derive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866626
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005866631
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Optimal simple monetary policy rules and non-atomistic wage setters in a New-Keynesian framework
Gnocchi, Stefano - European Central Bank - 2006
non-atomistic unions. It is shown that concentrated labor markets call for more aggressive inflation stabilization. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005344846
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Nonparametric Hybrid Phillips Curves Based on Subjective Expectations: Estimates for the Euro Area
Buchmann, Marco - European Central Bank - 2009
assumptions on the functional correspondence between price inflation, inflation expectations and marginal costs. Expectations are … not assumed to be an unbiased predictor of actual inflation and instead derived from the European Commission’s Consumer … Survey data. The results suggest that expectations drive inflation with a lag of about 6 months, which casts further doubt on …
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