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An investigation of the gains from commitment in monetary policy
Schaumburg, Ernst (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
degrees of credibility, in which commitment and discretion become special cases of what we call quasi commitment. The monetary … measure of the (lack of) credibility of the monetary policy authority, we investigate the welfare effect of a marginal … increase in credibility. Our main finding is that, in a simple model of the monetary transmission mechanism, most of the gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001783067
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An empirical analysis of stock and bond market liquidity
Chordia, Tarun (contributor); Sarkar, Asani (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper explores liquidity movements in stock and Treasury bond markets over a period of more than 1800 trading days. Cross-market dynamics in liquidity are documented by estimating a vector autoregressive model for liquidity (that is, bid-ask spreads and depth), returns, volatility, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001752003
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The execution of monetary policy : a tale of two central banks
Bartolini, Leonardo (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
The Eurosystem and the U.S. Federal Reserve System follow quite different approaches to the execution of monetary policy. The former institution adopts a "hands-off" approach that largely delegates to depository institutions the task of stabilizing their own liquidity at high frequency. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001752004
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How stable is the predictive power of the yield curve? : Evidence from Germany and the United States
Estrella, Arturo (contributor);  … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001512206
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Modeling uncertainty : predictive accuracy as a proxy for predictive confidence
Rich, Robert W. (contributor); Tracy, Joseph S. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751995
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Benefits and spillovers of greater competition in Europe : a macroeconomic assessment
Bayoumi, Tamim A. (contributor); Laxton, Douglas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions after calibrating the model to the euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002101549
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Banks' reserve management, transaction costs, and the timing of federal reserve intervention
Bartolini, Leonardo (contributor);  … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We use daily data on bank reserves and overnight interest rates to document a striking pattern in the high-frequency behavior of the U.S. market for federal funds: depository institutions tend to hold more reserves during the last few days of each "reserve maintenance period", when the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001512195
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Learning about beta : a new look at CAPM tests
Adrian, Tobias (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"When risk-factor loadings are time-varying and unobservable, investors are forced to form beliefs about the levels of their loadings. The learning process involved in forming these beliefs has normative implications for asset-pricing tests. This paper develops an equilibrium model of learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521758
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ECB monetary operations and the interbank repo market
Dunne, Peter G.; Fleming, Michael J.; Zholos, Andrey - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2013
We examine the relationship between monetary policy operations and interbank borrowing and lending of funds using sovereign bonds as collateral. We first establish that, in the precrisis period, there are important but rather weak relations between these funding sources and that this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732481
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Another view on U.S. Treasury term premiums
Durham, J. Benson - Federal Reserve Bank of New York - 2013
The consensus suggests that subdued nominal U.S. Treasury yields on balance since the onset of the global financial crisis primarily reflect exceptionally low, if not occasionally negative, term premiums as opposed to low anticipated short rates. Depressed term premiums plausibly owe to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010735681