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This paper develops a theoretical model of dynamic decision-making of a monetary policy committee with heterogeneous members. It investigates the optimal transparency, and the optimal way of transmitting information of committees, by analysing the effects different communication strategies have...
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In recent years, a number of papers have established a new empirical regularity. Stocks of distressed firms vastly underperform those of financially healthy firms. It is not necessary to attribute the negative excess returns of distressed firms to inefficient or irrational markets. We show that...
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In a surprisingly growing number of regions in Germany private "regional currencies" are issued as a cash substitute for the euro. Currently, these regional currencies are conceived almost exclusively as Schwundgeld (depreciative currency), which loses value on a predetermined timescale. This...
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monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads and asset markets in an integrated setup and to … house price inflation, strong private debt growth and low credit risk spreads. The results suggest that (i) monetary policy … contributed discernibly, but at a late stage to the unsustainable developments in house and credit markets that were observable …
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We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the … effect of reducing credit supply to the private sector. We find that negative US credit supply shocks have stronger negative … effects on domestic and foreign GDP, compared to credit supply shocks from the euro area and Japan. Domestic and foreign …
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Distinguishing pure supply effects from other determinants of price and quantity in the market for loans is a notoriously difficult problem. Using German data, we employ Bayesian vector autoregressive models with sign restrictions on the impulse response functions in order to enquire the role of...
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bank lending associated with changes in monetary policy and industryspecific bank credit demand. To this end, we estimate … that industry-specific bank lending growth predominantly responds to changes in industry-specific bank credit demand rather … lending. Because industries are a prominent source of variation in the bank lending effects of bank credit demand and monetary …
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