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EU banks rating assignments: Is there heterogeneity between new and old member countries?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Matousek, Roman; Stewart, Chris - 2010

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our aim is to assess whether 'old' and 'new' EU countries are rated differently and to determine whether 'new' ones are assigned lower ratings, ceteris paribus, than 'old' ones. We...

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Employment growth, inflation and output growth: Was Phillips right? Evidence from a dynamic panel

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Škare, Marinko - 2011

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

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The price puzzle revisited: can the cost channel explain a rise in inflation after a monetary policy shock?

Henzel, Steffen; Hülsewig, Oliver; Mayer, Eric; … - 2007

This paper explores whether the cost channel solves the price puzzle. We set-up a New Keynesian DSGE model and estimate it for the euro area by adopting a minimum distance approach. Our findings suggest that - under certain parameter restrictions which are not rejected by the data - the cost...

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Identification of segments of European banks with a latent class frontier model

Barros, Carlos Pestana; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2007

This paper analyses technical efficiency of European banks over the period 1996-2003 with unbalanced panel data techniques. A latent class frontier model is used which allows the identification of different segments in the production frontier. We find that there are three statistically...

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Forecasting Euro area real GDP: optimal pooling of information

Hülsewig, Oliver; Mayr, Johannes; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2008

This paper proposes a new method of forecasting euro area quarterly real GDP that uses area-wide indicators, which are derived by optimally pooling the information contained in national indicator series. Following the ideas of predictive modeling, we construct the area-wide indicators by...

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Price formation on the EuroMTS platform

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Girardi, Alessandro - 2010

This paper examines the process of price discovery in the MTS system, which builds on the parallel quoting of euro-denominated government securities on a number of (relatively large) domestic markets and on a (relatively small) European marketplace (EuroMTS). Using twenty-seven months of daily...

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Liquidity risk, credit risk and the overnight interest rate spread: A stochastic volatility modelling approach

Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010

In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited...

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Price dispersion in the Euro Area : the case of a symmetric oil price shock

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper studies the causes of price dispersion in the euro area emerging in response to a shock that hits all member countries symmetrically. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1996 - 2007 to generate impulse responses of a range of price and wage variables to an oil...

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Inflation and inflation uncertainty in the Euro Area

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Onorante, Luca; Paesani, Paolo - 2009

This paper estimates a time-varying AR-GARCH model of inflation producing measures of inflation uncertainty for the euro area, and investigates the linkages between them in a VAR framework, also allowing for the possible impact of the policy regime change associated with the start of EMU in...

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Monetary policy transmission and house prices : European cross-country evidence

Carstensen, Kai; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2009

This paper explores the importance of housing and mortgage market heterogeneity in 12 European countries for the transmission of monetary policy. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 1995-2006 to generate impulse responses of key macroeconomic variables to a monetary...

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