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The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. The case against including money in the central bank's interest rate rule is based on a standard … decades. In this paper, we develop a justification for including money in the interest rate rule by allowing for imperfect …
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criticized for failing to explain common trends in money growth and inflation, and that therefore money should be used as a cross …-check is shown to be effective in offsetting persistent deviations of inflation due to central bank misperceptions. …
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This paper uses a data-set including time series data on macroeconomic variables, loans, deposits and interest rates for the euro area in order to study the features of financial intermediation over the business cycle. We find that stylized facts for aggregate monetary and real variables are...
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-checking does not require direct effects of money on output or inflation. …The European Central Bank has assigned a special role to money in its two pillar strategy and has received much … criticism for this decision. In this paper, we explore possible justifications. The case against including money in the central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792117
Expectations play a central role in modern macroeconomics. The econometric learning approach, in line with the … cognitive consistency principle, models agents as forming expectations by estimating and updating subjective forecasting models …
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Since the 2008 global financial crisis, and after decades of relative neglect, the importance of the financial system and its episodic crises as drivers of macroeconomic outcomes has attracted fresh scrutiny from academics, policy makers, and practitioners. Theoretical advances are following a...
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We document a strong co-movement between the VIX, the stock market option-based implied volatility, and monetary policy. We decompose the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility ("uncertainty"), and analyze their dynamic interactions with monetary...
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Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital constraints. Binding capital constraints propagate business cycles, and a reduction of the interest rate can increase the required return of high-haircut assets since it can increase the...
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channel through which monetary policy lowers the volatility of inflation and, even more importantly, output. …
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