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Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks in the Euro Area and the Sovereign-Bank Nexus
Hristov, Nikolay - 2020
We explore the effects of the ECB's unconventional monetary policy on the banks' sovereign debt portfolios. In particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy shocks,...
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Measuring Euro Area Monetary Policy
Altavilla, Carlo - 2019
We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867012
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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement
Brouwer, J.; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2021
investment and a relationship between trade and exchange rate volatility that depends on the sign of bilateral trade balances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316812
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy in Good and Bad Times : A Replication of the VAR Investigation by Bloom (2009)
Caggiano, Giovanni - 2020
an uncertainty shock. We find a significantly stronger response of real activity in recessions. Counterfactual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824829
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Oil Price Fluctuations and Exchange Rate Dynamics in the MENA Region : Evidence from Non-Causality-in-Variance and Asymmetric Non-Causality Tests
Nouira, Ridha - 2018
dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries …) to examine the presence of volatility spillover between oil prices and exchange rates return series. The econometric … rates, and ii) there is significant evidence of volatility spillovers from oil markets to exchange rate markets in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908723
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Productivity Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Estimated Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital
Malley, Jim - 2011
Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120659
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Measuring Monetary Policy with Residual Sign Restrictions at Known Shock Dates
Badinger, Harald - 2020
residuals of the policy rule equation at these shock dates accordingly. In spite of its utmost agnostic nature, this approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822501
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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During Extreme Events
Pellegrino, Giovanni - 2020
activity to a financial uncertainty shock during the great recession. We replicate this evidence with an estimated DSGE … real activity of an uncertainty shock under different Taylor rules estimated with normal times vs. great recession data … (the latter associated with a stronger response to output). We find that the uncertainty shock-induced output loss …
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The Financial Accelerator in the Euro Area : New Evidence Using a Mixture VAR Model
Bennani, Hamza; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2021
We estimate a logit mixture vector autoregressive model describing monetary policy transmission in the euro area over the period 2003Q1–2019Q4 with a special emphasis on credit conditions. With the help of this model, monetary policy transmission can be described as mixture of two states...
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Coherence of Output Gaps in the Euro Area : The Impact of the COVID-19 Shock
de Haan, Jakob; Jacobs, Jan P. A. M.; Zijm, Renske - 2022
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a...
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