This paper examines the usefulness of shadow rates to measure the monetary policy stance by comparing them to the official policy rates and those implied by three types of Taylor rules in both inflation targeting countries (the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and others that have only...

This paper examines the reaction of house prices in a panel of euro area countries to monetary policy surprises over the period 2010-2019. Using Jordà’s (2005) local projection method, we find that real house prices rise in response to expansionary monetary policy shocks that can be related...

We examine the impact of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on the euro area labor markets over the period 2010-2018. Using Jordà's (2005) local projection method, we find that unemployment rates decline in response to expansionary monetary policy surprises that can be related to...