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How do financial markets price new information? This paper analyzes price setting atthe intersection of private and public information, by testing whether and how thereaction of financial markets to public signals depends on the relative importance ofprivate information in agents’ information...
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The ECB Working Paper Series seeks to disseminate economic research on issues that are relevant to the various tasks and functions of the ECB. The Series invites submissions of research work by ECB staff and visitors. Papers by researchers not affiliated with the ECB may also be considered for...
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Monetary Policy Committees differ in the way the interest rate proposal is preparedand presented in the policy meeting. In this paper we show analytically how differentarrangements could affect the voting behaviour of individual MPC members andtherefore policy outcomes. We then apply our results...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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This paper investigates the market pricing of subprime mortgage risk on the basis of data forthe ABX.HE family of … therelationship between observed index returns and macroeconomic news as well as marketbasedproxies of default risk, interest rates …, liquidity and risk appetite. The results imply thatdeclining risk appetite and heightened concerns about market illiquidity …
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structure (ofinterest rates) models. Stock returns and bond yields as well as risk premia are affinefunctions of the state …
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This study focuses on longer term influences and provides some potential explanations in ECU markets which were regarder by some financial market participants as puzzles.
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-interest rate credit conditions and terms, the risk perception of banks and the willingness of banks to lend. Credit standards are …
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