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This paper offers an explication of the hump-shaped response of real economic activity to changes in monetary policy, focusing on the particular channel operating through new home sales. I suggest that the conventional notion of a monetary policy shock as a surprise change in the fed funds rate...
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transmission mechanism if they are to set policy instruments appropriately. In this paper, I examine what we know about the role of … housing in the monetary transmission mechanism and then explore the implications of this knowledge for the conduct of monetary … policy. I begin with a theoretical and empirical review of the main housing-related channels of the transmission mechanism …
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Estimating the response of asset prices to changes in monetary policy is complicated by the endogeneity of policy decisions and the fact that both interest rates and asset prices react to numerous other variables. This paper develops a new estimator that is based on the heteroskedasticity that...
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This paper studies the synchronization of financial cycles across 17 advanced economies over the past 150 years. The comovement in credit, house prices, and equity prices has reached historical highs in the past three decades. The sharp increase in the comovement of global equity markets is...
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This paper studies the limitations of monetary policy transmission within a credit channel frame- work. We show that …, under certain circumstances, the credit channel transmission mechanism fails in that liquidity injections by the central …
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significant role of expectations of future policy actions in the monetary transmission mechanism, and the importance for the …
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nature of the monetary transmission mechanism, and it is sometimes suggested that this could threaten the ability of national … of the three structural equations of a basic model of the monetary transmission mechanism: the LM equation, the IS … markets, and factor markets for the form of each of these parts of the monetary transmission mechanism, and find that …
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transmission. We argue that if the lending view is correct, one should expect the loan and security portfolios of large and small …
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We provide causal evidence that discount rate changes by the Federal Reserve affected economic output in the 1920s. Our identification strategy exploits county-level variation in access to the Fed's discount window, and we implement this strategy with hand-collected data on banking and...
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We develop a deep learning model to detect emotions embedded in press conferences after the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee and examine the influence of the detected emotions on financial markets. We find that, after controlling for the Fed's actions and the sentiment in policy...
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