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The Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro-Area

Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2018

In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through the relaxation of lending standards for borrowers. Our dataset covers the period 2003Q1-2016Q2 and includes, in addition to the standard variables for real GDP growth,...

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Shadow Banks and the Risk-Taking Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area

Wischnewsky, Arina - 2018

In this paper, we provide evidence for a risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the euro area that works through an increase in shadow banks' total asset growth and their risk assets ratio. Our dataset covers the period 2003Q1 - 2017Q3 and includes, in addition to the standard...

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State-Dependent Transmission of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area

Burgard, Jan Pablo - 2018

In this paper, we estimate a logit mixture vector autoregressive (Logit-MVAR) model describing monetary policy transmission in the euro area over the period 1999-2015. MVARs allow us to differentiate between different states of the economy. In our model, the time-varying state weights are...

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Managing financial market expectations: The role of central bank transparency and central bank communication

Neuenkirch, Matthias - In: European Journal of Political Economy 28 (2012) 1, pp. 1-13

In this paper, we study the influence of central bank transparency and informal central bank communication on the …, first, that transparency reduces the bias in money market expectations and dampens their variation. Second, informal … the Eijffinger and Geraats (2006) transparency index lead to a smaller bias in expectations (in particular, evaluation of …

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What's in a second opinion? Shadowing the ECB and the Bank of England

Neuenkirch, Matthias; Siklos, Pierre L. - In: European Journal of Political Economy 32 (2013) C, pp. 135-148

One way of evaluating how well monetary authorities perform is to provide the public with a regular and independent second opinion. The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE) are shadowed by professional and academic economists who provide a separate policy rate recommendation...

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