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shocks increasing risk premia in emerging markets, a shock to U.S. dollar does not generate the same effect …
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movements in the policy rate unrelated to economic conditions. We then compute the effects of a monetary policy shock on the … aggregate economy using local projection methods. We find that a contractionary monetary policy shock has a limited negative …
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This paper characterizes the transmission mechanism of monetary shocks across countries of the euro area, documents how … this mechanism has changed with the introduction of the euro, and explores some potential explanations. The factor …-augmented VAR (FAVAR) framework used is sufficiently rich to jointly model the euro area dynamics while permitting the transmission …
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propose a comprehensive description of how monetary policy affects the euro area economy. We focus mainly on three questions …) if not, is the bank lending channel a likely candidate to complete the story? We find plausible euro-area wide monetary … (relative to consumption) seems to play a larger role in euro area monetary policy transmission than in the U.S. We cannot …
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Credit market conditions play a key role in propagating shocks in middle income countries (MICs). In particular, shocks to the spread between domestic and international interest rates have a strong effect on GDP, and an even stronger effect on domestic credit. This strong credit channel is...
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We build a model of the global financial cycle with one key ingredient: the demand for safe dollar assets. The model matches patterns of dollar borrowing and currency mismatch, the U.S. external balance sheet, low U.S. interest rates and exorbitant privilege, spillovers of the U.S. monetary...
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price stability. Other factors that account for the different economic outcomes in the Euro Area and US include differences …
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This paper studies how tightening monetary policy transmits to the economy through the mortgage market and sheds new light on the distributional consequences at both the individual and regional levels. We find that credit supply factors, specifically restrictions on the debt-to-income (DTI)...
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What are the macroeconomic consequences of the dominant role of the dollar in the international monetary system? Here, we present a calibrated two country model in which exports are invoiced in the key currency, and government bonds denominated in the key currency are held internationally to...
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This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model that is intended to help clarify the role of credit market frictions in business fluctuations, from both a qualitative and a quantitative standpoint. The model is a synthesis of the leading approaches in the literature. In particular, the...
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