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We evaluate the ECB’s monetary policy strategy against the underlying economic structure of the euro area economy, in normal times and in times of severe financial dislocations. We show that in the years preceding the financial crisis that started in 2007 the strategy was successful at...
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To identify credit availability we analyze the extensive and intensive margins of lending with loan applications and … resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …
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, operates mainly through the credit channel, both the bank lending and the non-financial borrower balance-sheet channel. Our …, the impact of credit frictions of borrowers have not been significantly reduced, especially in distressed countries. Since … reducing credit availability problems stemming from deteriorated firm net worth and risk conditions, especially for small firms …
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This paper aims at providing some empirical evidence about the impact of monetary policy on bank lending at the microeconomic level. We estimate a model close to that proposed by Kashyap and Stein (2000) using a panel data set comprising 312 banks observed quarterly over the period 1993-2000. We...
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individual stocks comprising the S&P500 those with low cashflows, small size, poor credit ratings, low debt to capital ratios …
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the classical interest rate channel and the credit and bank lending channels of monetary transmission. We then review the …
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Any empirical analysis of the credit channel faces a key identification challenge: changes in credit supply and demand … unique Euro area bank lending surveys. Embedding this information within a standard VAR model, we find that: (1) the credit … channel is active through the balance-sheets of households, firms and banks; (2) the credit channel amplifies the impact of a …
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, (ii) credit supply and (iii) housing demand shocks on the housing market and the broader economy. We find that … clearcut for housing demand shocks. We also find that credit supply shocks matter more in the euro area. JEL Classification: E …
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Drawing on recent Eurosystem research that uses a range of econometric techniques and a number of new data sets, we propose a comprehensive description of how monetary policy affects the euro area economy. We focus mainly on three questions: (1) what are the stylised facts concerning the...
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monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to … house price inflation, strong private debt growth and low credit risk spreads. The results suggest that (i) monetary policy … contributed discernibly, but at a late stage to the unsustainable developments in house and credit markets that were observable …
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