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Financial Cycles, Credit Bubbles and Stabilization Policies

Corrado, Luisa - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of several policy instruments to mitigate financial bubbles generated in the banking sector. We augment a New Keynesian macroeconomic framework by endogenizing boundedly-rational expectations on asset values of loan portfolios and allow for interbank trading. We...

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Uncertainty and Monetary Policy During the Great Recession

Pellegrino, Giovanni; Castelnuovo, Efrem; Caggiano, Giovanni - 2021

real activity to a financial uncertainty shock during and in the aftermath of the great recession. We replicate this … estimated framework to quantify the output loss due to the large uncertainty shock that materialized in 2008Q3. We find such a … shock to be able to explain about 60% of the output loss in the 2008-2014 period. The same estimated model unveils the role …

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The ECB's Fiscal Policy

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018

While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarises the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...

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The Effect of U.S. Stress Tests on Monetary Policy Spillovers to Emerging Markets

Liu, Emily - 2019

This paper shows that monetary policy and prudential policies interact. U.S. banks issue more commercial and industrial loans to emerging market borrowers when U.S. monetary policy eases. The effect is less pronounced for banks that are more constrained through the U.S. bank stress tests,...

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The Effects of Monetary Policy Surprises and Fiscal Sustainability Regimes in the Euro Area

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023

We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn’s (1998) approach through Schlicht’s (2003)...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Capital Tax Rate Changes

Bhattarai, Saroj - 2019

We study aggregate, distributional, and welfare effects of a permanent reduction in the capital tax rate in a dynamic equilibrium model with capital-skill complementarity. Such a tax reform leads to expansionary long-run aggregate effects, but is coupled with an increase in the skill premium....

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Real effects of quantitative easing at the zero-lower bound: Structural VAR-based evidence from Japan

Schenkelberg, Heike; Watzka, Sebastian - 2011

DSGE models. Our results show that while a quantitative easing shock leads to a significant but temporary rise in output …

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Asymmetries in the trans-atlantic monetary policy relationship : does the ECB follow the Fed?

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2005

The belief that the ECB follows the US Federal Reserve in setting its policy is so entrenched with market participants and commentators that the search for empirical support would seem to be a trivial task. However, this is not the case. We find that the ECB is indeed often influenced by the...

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Does money matter in the ECB strategy? : New evidence based on ECB communication

Berger, Helge; de Haan, Jakob; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2006

We examine the role of money in the policies of the ECB, using introductory statements of the ECB President at the monthly press conferences during 1999-2004. Over time, the relative amount of words devoted to the monetary analysis has decreased. Our analysis of indicators of the monetary policy...

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The stress of having a single monetary policy in Europe

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2008

This paper estimates forward-looking Taylor rules for the euro area. Using the asymmetries in inflation and cyclical output developments across countries, we investigate the adequacy of the single monetary policy for each of the European Monetary Union (EMU) member countries. Notable differences...

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