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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...

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What explains global exchange rate movements during the financial crisis?

Fratzscher, Marcel - European Central Bank - 2009

A striking and unexpected feature of the financial crisis has been the sharpappreciation of the US dollar against virtually all currencies globally. The paper findsthat negative US-specific macroeconomic shocks during the crisis have triggered asignificant strengthening of the US dollar, rather...

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Bidding behaviour in the ECB’s main refinancing operations during the financial crisis

Eisenschmidt, Jens; Hirsch, Astrid; Linzert, Tobias - European Central Bank - 2009

Liquidity provision through its repo auctions has been one of the main instrumentsof the European Central Bank (ECB) to …

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Interbank contagion at work: evidence from a natural experiment

Iyer, Rajkamal; Peydró, José-Luis - European Central Bank - 2010

shock caused by a large-bank failure in conjunction with detailed data on interbank exposures. First, we find robust … evidence that higher interbank exposure to the failed bank leads to large deposit withdrawals. Second, the magnitude of …

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Transmission of monetary policy shocks in Finland: evidence from bank level data on loans

Topi, Jukka; Vilmunen, Jouko - European Central Bank - 2001

rate of bank loans. By allowing for individual bank specific effects in the empirical models we specifically seek evidence … of a bank-lending channel for the transmission of monetary policy shocks in Finland. On the basis of our estimation … results, we conclude that there is weak evidence in favour of the bank-lending channel for monetary policy shocks. Our data …

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Securitization and lending standards: evidence from the wholesale loan market

Kara, Alper; Marqués-Ibáñez, David; Ongena, Steven - European Central Bank - 2011

. Macroeconomic factors also play a large role explaining the impact of securitization activity on bank lending standards: banks more …

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Global crises and equity market contagion

Bekaert, Geert; Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel; … - European Central Bank - 2011

Using the 2007-2009 financial crisis as a laboratory, we analyze the transmission of crises to country-industry equity portfolios in 55 countries. We use an asset pricing framework with global and local factors to predict crisis returns, defining unexplained increases in factor loadings as...

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Some lessons from the financial crisis for the economic analysis

Kenny, Geoff; Morgan, Julian - European Central Bank - 2011

The economics profession in general, and economic forecasters in particular, have faced some understandable criticism for their failure to predict the timing and severity of the recent economic crisis. In this paper, we offer some assessment of the performance of the Economic Analysis conducted...

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Theoretical notes on bubbles and the current crisis

Martin, Alberto; Ventura, Jaume - European Central Bank - 2011

We explore a view of the crisis as a shock to investor sentiment that led to the collapse of a bubble or pyramid scheme in financial markets. We embed this view in a standard model of the financial accelerator and explore its empirical and policy implications. In particular, we show how the...

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Bank risk during the financial crisis: do business models matter?

Altunbas, Yener; Marqués-Ibáñez, David; Manganelli, … - European Central Bank - 2011

We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher …. Business models related to significantly reduced bank risk were characterized by a strong deposit base and greater income …

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