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-versus-payment substitute credit risk with liquidity risk which in turn increases the value of intraday liquidity. The analysis is central bank …
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We analyse deviations between interest rates paid in the Swiss franc unsecured money market and the respective Libor rate. First, banks that have access to the secured interbank market and the SNB's monetary policy operations pay less than banks without access. Second, domestically unchartered,...
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-versus-payment substitute credit risk with liquidity risk which in turn increases the value of intraday liquidity. The analysis is central bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008917453
In this paper, we analyze the price setting behavior of banks in the Swiss franc repo market by means of network topology concepts and measures. The sample ranges from October 1999 to December 2009. Hence, it covers a large part of the money market turmoil that started in August 2007. Among...
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In reaction to recent requests for interoperability between central counterparties of European stock markets, regulators have issued new guidelines to contain systemic risk. Our analysis confirms that the currently applied cross-CCP risk management model can be a source of contagion,...
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This paper argues that the expansion in reserves following recent quantitative easing programs of the Federal Reserve may have affected long-term interest rates through liquidity effects. The data lends some support for liquidity effects, in that reserves were negatively correlated with...
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How should monetary authorities react to an oil price shock? The New Keynesian literature has concluded that ensuring perfect price stability is optimal. Yet, the contrast between theory and practice is striking: Inflation targeting central banks typically favor a longer run approach to price...
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This paper estimates Taylor rules using real-time inflation forecasts of the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) ARIMA model … inflation responsiveness of the SNB than found with the central bank's data. Third, the best fitting specification includes a … bank reacts to movements in the output gap and the exchange rate to the extent that they become a concern for price …
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The Swiss National Bank (SNB) provides reserves to market participants via fixed rate tender auctions. We analyze the …. Therefore, we estimate bidding functions for banks which participate regularly in the SNB’s auctions. We find that a bank’s bids …
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monetary policy decision process at the Swiss National Bank. In addition to forecasting the likely course of main macro …
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