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We assess a New Keynesian macro-economic model that is supplemented with a micro-founded role for money in determining aggregate demand and supply in order to better describe monetary policy transmission. In this model welfare is higher if the monetary authority takes money growth explicitly...
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results indicate that private firms, which appear to be more dependent on bank debt for external funds, are more susceptible …
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(acceleration of) procyclical behaviour of banking, which might threat en macroeconomic stability. This article analyses the … decades, distortion caused by procyclical behaviour of banks has been limited, banking crises excepted. …
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This paper studies the transmission of monetary policy to macroeconomic variables in three new EU Member States in comparison with that in the euro area with structural time-varying coefficient vector autoregressions. In line with the Lucas Critique reduced-form models like standard VARs are not...
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This study analyses the transmission of monetary policy in Germany for the EMS period in the framework of a structural vector error correction model (S-VECM) analysis. Three stable cointegration relationships are found: a money demand relation, an interest rate spread and a stationary real...
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This report investigates monetary transmission in a monetary union of developing countries (West-African monetary union or Communauté Financière Africaine, CFA). This requires existing monetary transmission models to be adapted. Three econometric methods are applied to assess the impact of...
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We analyze the effects of a contractionary Dutch monetary policy shock that is consistent with the fixed guilder/mark exchange rate. Although monetary policy shocks are quite small, they do have plausible effects: credit, expenditures, output and prices all fall after a monetary tightening....
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stronger competition implies significantly lower spreads between bank and market interest rates for most loan market products … pass-through of market rates to bank interest rates, we likewise find that banks tend to price their loans more in … stronger, we observe larger bank spreads (implying lower bank interest rates) on current account and time deposits. This would …
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therefore figures prominently on the agenda of monetary policy makers. This paper, based in part on research done at the Bank …
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This paper studies the implications of Europe's single market. Small costs of international trade in goods and services may cause a large home bias in consumer spending and can explain seemingly excessive short-run exchange rate volatility. The European single market (declining costs of...
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