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We study whether clarity of central bank inflation reports affects return volatility in financial markets. We measure …
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This paper investigates how changes in the monetary policy framework have affected the overnight money market lending rate for the Dutch segment of the euro area during tranquil and crisis times. We present an EGARCH model on the volatility of the overnight lending rate. The results show that...
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central banks' commitment to price stability. Using a daily measure of inflation expectations extracted from nominal and … indexed-linked government bonds, or inflation swaps, we test whether these react to alternative measures of fiscal burdens … burdens on long-term inflation expectations in the United States, the euro area and the United Kingdom. These results are …
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natural rate will be more effective in avoiding secular stagnation than reducing the real rate through higher inflation …
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dynamics of the model are reduced to a representation in the output gap and domestic inflation, and depend on the degree of …
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We investigate whether the anchoring properties of long-run inflation expectations in the United States, the euro area … economies, expectations measures extracted from inflation-indexed bonds and inflation swaps became much more volatile in 2007 …. Moreover, their sensitivity to news about inflation and other domestic macroeconomic variables a measure of anchoring increased …
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Since its inception, the European Central Bank (ECB) has regarded communication as anintegral part of its monetary policy. This paper describes and evaluates ECB communications during the first decade of its operation.We conclude that, overall, ECB communication has contributed to the...
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According to Monacelli (2009), a standard New-Keynesian model augmented with credit frictions solves the outstanding challenge to generate a joint decline of durable and non-durable consumption during a monetary tightening. This paper shows that his success in generating positive comovement...
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This paper examines corporate credit risks in the Netherlands at the industry-level, addressing two key questions. First, to what extent are corporate credit risks driven by idiosyncratic financial factors or systematic macroeconomic factors? Second, did debt financing in the late 1990s indeed...
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This paper examines the response of the economies of 11 EU countries, Japan, and the United States to shocks in housing and equity prices. The effects are assessed with a Structural Vector Auto Regressive (SVAR) model, and four key findings emerge. First, the impacts of asset price shocks are...
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