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Central Bank Policies and Financial Markets : Lessons from the Euro Crisis

Mody, Ashoka - 2019

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone’s rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …

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The ECB's Policy, the Recovery Fund and the Importance of Trust : The Case of Greece

Dimakopoulou, Vasiliki; Economides, George; … - 2021

This paper, using a microfounded macroeconomic model that embeds the key features of the Greek economy, studies the efficacy of the various policy measures taken, at national and EU level, to cushion the economic effects of the pandemic shock. The paper attempts to give quantitative answers to...

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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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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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The Euro Area Periphery Sovereigns' Fiscal Positions and Unconventional Monetary Policy

Hülsewig, Oliver - 2020

We explore the reaction of the euro area periphery sovereigns' fiscal positions to an unconventional monetary policy shock. We estimate panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models over the period 2010-2018, and identify the shock by imposing sign restrictions. Our results suggest that the...

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Macroprudential Policy and the Sovereign-Bank Nexus in the Euro Area

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Kolb, Benedikt - 2021

We explore how changes in capital-based macroprudential regulation in the euro area affect the exposure of national banking sectors to domestic government debt, thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct a measure of macroprudential policy based on the...

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Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area. Impacts on Loans, Employment, and Investment

Afonso, António; Gomes Pereira, Francisco - 2022

Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy on a micro panel at the bank and firm level, we study the transmission effectiveness of ECB’s large-scale asset purchasing programs programs (i.e. APP and PEPP) in the Euro area. Our findings show: first, balance sheet composition of...

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Euro Area House Prices and Unconventional Monetary Policy Surprises

Hülsewig, Oliver; Rottmann, Horst - 2021

This paper examines the reaction of house prices in a panel of euro area countries to monetary policy surprises over the period 2010-2019. Using Jordà’s (2005) local projection method, we find that real house prices rise in response to expansionary monetary policy shocks that can be related...

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The Impact of Containment Measures and Monetary and Fiscal Responses on US Financial Markets During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021

This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...

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Monetary Policy Surprises and Exchange Rate Behavior

Gürkaynak, Refet S. - 2020

Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...

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