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We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...
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Using voting data from the Bank of England, we show that different individual assessments of the economy strongly influence votes after controlling for individual policy preferences. We estimate that internal members form more precise assessments than externals and are also more hawkish, though...
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No. And not only for the reason you think. In a world with multiple inefficiencies the single policy tool the central … terms of optimal monetary policy effectively turns the central bank into the residual claimant of all policy and gives the … other policymakers a free hand in pursuing their own goals. This further worsens the tradeoffs faced by the central bank …
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developments and pay particular attention to monetary policy. The data suggests that the Central Bank of Turkey was a strong … post-2009 period the Central Bank was able to stabilize expectations and asset prices when it chose to do so, but this was …
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provides an overview of the ways in which central banks have been providing more information about their monetary policymaking …
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Many central banks have become more transparent during the last decade, in particular about macroeconomic prospects …. This paper shows that such economic transparency could give central banks greater flexibility to respond to macroeconomic … shocks. In particular, it allows central banks to stabilize aggregate demand and supply shocks without affecting private …
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This paper explores the link between monetary policies of large industrial countries and international credit cycles. Based on an overinvestment framework, we show that in the prevailing asymmetric world monetary system, monetary policies of large centre countries can fuel credit booms in...
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The paper analyses the effects of the monetary policy crisis management of the European Central Bank on the economic … Europe as a whole. It is shown that the monetary policy rescue measures of the European Central Bank have undermined the …
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sensitive to the global output gap. This can affect the trade-offs that central banks face when managing inflation. …
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We document that observed international input-output linkages contribute substantially to synchronizing producer price inflation (PPI) across countries. Using a multi-country, industry-level dataset that combines information on PPI and exchange rates with international and domestic input-output...
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