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We analytically characterize optimal monetary policy for an augmented New Keynesian model with a housing sector. With rational private sector expectations about housing prices and inflation, optimal monetary policy can be characterized by a standard "target criterion" in terms of inflation and...
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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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We identify monetary policy shocks by exploiting variation in the central bank's information set. To be specific, we use differences between nowcasts of the output gap and inflation with final, revised estimates of these series to isolate movements in the policy rate unrelated to economic...
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Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of adjustment that are usually absent from this view using microdata in the $10 trillion U.S. residential mortgage market. We first document the limits of the shadow bank...
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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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