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This paper analyses the interest rate pass-through for five economies of the Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Employing an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) specification to monthly data, we find that the interest rate pass-through is systematically...
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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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This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system … (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account possible nonlinearities in the relationship between bank lending and monetary …
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This paper presents a New Keynesian model that dwells on the role of banks in the cost channel of monetary policy. Banks extend loans to firms in an environment of monopolistic competition by setting the loan rate according to a Calvo-type staggered price setting approach, which means that the...
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the US, the Eurozone, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK using fractional integration and cointegration techniques …This paper analyses the stochastic properties of and the bilateral linkages between the central bank policy rates of … estimated to be above 1, ranging from 1.26 (US) to 1.48 (UK), with the single exception of Japan, for which the unit root null …
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This paper uses long-range dependence techniques to analyse two important features of the US Federal Funds effective rate, namely its persistence and cyclical behaviour. It examines annual, monthly, bi-weekly and weekly data, from 1954 until 2010. Two models are considered. One is based on an...
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retail bank rates became significantly less complete during the crisis. Model simulations show that this result can be well …
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...
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indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of banks to the private sector. Second, we find support for the “bank … effect). The role of bank capital is, however, ambiguous. Besides the above favorable direct effect on loan supply, lower … levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidity effects of the policies. The drag on …
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transmission of monetary policies of the U.S., euro area, Japan, and United Kingdom. Two other studies use international data with ….S. policies, and bank-specific heterogeneity influences the magnitudes of transmission. The effects are supportive of the … international bank lending channel and the portfolio channel of monetary policy transmission. They also show that the frictions that …
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