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The Price Puzzle Revisited : Can the Cost Channel Explain a Rise in Inflation after a Monetary Policy Shock?
Henzel, Steffen - 2013
This paper explores whether the cost channel solves the price puzzle. We set-up a New Keynesian DSGE model and estimate it for the euro area by adopting a minimum distance approach. Our findings suggest that - under certain parameter restrictions which are not rejected by the data - the cost...
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Credit Channel and Business Cycle : The Role of Tax Evasion
Chiarini, Bruno - 2018
the credit channel via the financial accelerator mechanism. The results show that tax evasion is pro cyclical and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910934
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Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations
Peersman, Gert - 2014
Shocks to bank lending, risk-taking and securitization activities that are orthogonal to real economy and monetary policy innovations account for more than 30 percent of U.S. output variation. The dynamic effects, however, depend on the type of shock. Expansionary securitization shocks lead to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055428
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Monetary Policy Transmission and Trade-Offs in the United States : Old and New
Hofmann, Boris - 2018
This study shows that, in the United States, the effects of monetary policy on credit and housing markets have become …. Macroeconomic stabilization through monetary policy may therefore have become associated with greater fluctuations in credit and … housing markets, whereas stabilizing credit and house prices may have become less costly in terms of macroeconomic volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930281
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Differences in Euro-Area Household Finances and Their Relevance for Monetary-Policy Transmission
Hintermaier, Thomas - 2019
This paper quantifies the extent of heterogeneity in consumption responses to changes in real interest rates and house prices in the four largest economies in the euro area: France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. We first calibrate a life-cycle incomplete-markets model with a liquid financial asset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012898763
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The International Transmission of Monetary Policy
Buch, Claudia M. - 2018
This paper presents the novel results from an internationally coordinated project by the International Banking Research Network (IBRN) on the cross-border transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policy through banks. Teams from seventeen countries use confidential micro-banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911041
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912666
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914916
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917006
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The Transmission Mechanism of Credit Support Policies in the Euro Area
Boeckx, Jef - 2017
mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have … indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the “bank … responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955416