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The response of long-term interest rates to news about monetary policy actions : empirical evidence for the US and Germany
Nautz, Dieter; Wolters, Jürgen - 1998
We reexamine the expectations theory of the term structure focusing on the question how monetary policy actions … tests of expectations theory this implication only requires rational expectations but not stationary risk premia. Therefore …, its empirical test sheds new light on the importance of expectations theory for the determinants of the term structure of …
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Structural vector autoregressive models and monetary policy analysis
Holtemöller, Oliver - 2002
possibility is to adopt restrictions from economic theory. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implications of the …
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Was there a regime change in the German monetary transmission mechanism in 1983?
Candelon, Bertrand; Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2000
Recent investigations of the transmission mechanism of German monetary policy arrive at quite different conclusions regarding its stability during the period of monetary targeting by the Bundesbank. In this study small dynamic models for the monetary sector of the German economy are analyzed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583433
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Lag selection in subset VAR models with an application to a US monetary system
Brüggemann, Ralf; Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2000
Alternative modeling strategies for specifying subset VAR models are considered. It is shown that under certain conditions a testing procedure based on t-ratios is equivalent to sequentially eliminating lags that lead to the largest improvement in a prespecified model selection criterion. A...
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Taylor rules and macroeconomic instability or how the Central Bank can pre-empt sunspot expectations
Weder, Mark (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001917100
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The market reaction to stock splits : evidence from Germany
Wulff, Christian - 1999
Although stock splits seem to be a purely cosmetic event, there exists ample empirical evidence from the United States that stock splits are associated with abnormal returns on both the announcement and the execution day, and additionally with an increase in variance following the ex-day. This...
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Stock performance around share repurchase announcements in Germany
Seifert, Udo (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource], draft
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Banks' supply of loans : when future monetary policy is uncertain
Mitusch, Kay; Nautz, Dieter - 1998
The most important policy instruments of the Bundesbank and of the coming European Central Bank involve lending to domestic credit institutions. In this monetary setup, banks use short-term central bank credits extensively in order to refinance long-term loans to the public, which makes them...
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The transmission of German monetary policy in the pre-Euro period
Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 2001
is constructed for the German monetary sector based on M3, GNP, an inflation rate, a long-term interest rate and a short …-term rate which represents the policy variable of the DBB. Moreover, import price inflation is included as an exogenous variable …
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Comparison of bootstrap confidence intervals for impulse responses of German monetary systems
Benkwitz, Alexander; Lütkepohl, Helmut; Wolters, Jürgen - 1999
It is argued that standard impulse response analysis based on vector autoregressive models has a number of shortcomings. Although the impulse responses are estimated quantities, measures for sampling variability such as confidence intervals are often not provided. If confidence intervals are...
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