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We analyze the importance of global shocks for the global economy and national policy makers. More specifically, we investigate whether monetary policy has become less effective in the wake of financial globalization. We also examine whether there is increasing uncertainty for central banks due...
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inflation. This renders it difficult for central bank to exit from their current very expansive monetary policy stance if they …
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We develop a roadmap of how the ECB should further reduce the volume of money (money supply) and roll back credit …
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After the dramatic rescue package for the euro area, the governing council of the European Central Bank decided to … sterilise its bond purchases - compensating those purchases through sales of other bonds or money market instruments to keep the … overall money supply unaffected. This is to counter accusations that the ECB is monetizing government debt. This note …
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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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