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The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central … decisionmaking. Assessing these strategies, we find that predictability of policy decisions and the responsiveness of financial …
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We develop and estimate a stylized micro-founded model of the US economy. Next we compute the parameters of a simple interest rate policy rule that maximizes the unconditional mean of utility. We show that such a welfare-based rule lies close to the Taylor efficiency frontier. A counterfactual...
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This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This … approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … competition can consider the entire banking market only. A caveat of the Boone-indicator may be that it assumes that banks …
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policy perspective, it highlights the importance of structural reforms that help enhance competition in this sector. This …
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This paper analyses the impact of loan market competition on the interest rates applied by euro area banks to loans and … deposits during the 1994-2004 period, using a novel measure of competition called the Boone indicator. We find evidence that … stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products …
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In this paper we explore the link between the intensity of product market competition and inflation rates across EU … over time and as alternative proxies of competition we use the level of mark-up, profit margin, the profit rate and a … survey based “intensity of competition” variable. Results for both aggregate and sectoral panels show that the extent of …
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competition intensifies, prospecting for loans becomes more important and banks' internal agency problem worsens. In response to … more competition, banks lower lending standards, may choose to disregard soft and use only hard information in their credit …
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their privately observed soft information is positive or negative. Competition affects the investment in learning the …
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, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of … competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …
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policy perspective, it highlights the importance of structural reforms that help enhance competition in this sector. This …
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