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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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Commodity price shocks and global cycles : monetary policy matters

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Mori, Lorenzo; Peersman, Gert - 2024

We employ a structural VAR model with global and US variables to study the relevance and transmission of oil, food commodities, and industrial input price shocks. We show that commodities are not all alike. Industrial input price changes are almost entirely endogenous responses to other shocks....

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Convergence of monetary transmission in EMU new evidence

Toolsema-Veldman, Linda Adriana; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; … - 2001

This paper examines how the pass-through of monetary policy measures in 6 EMU countries has evolved over time and whether there is convergence in monetary transmission. The countries included are: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain, and the sample period is 1980-2000. We...

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Effectiveness and transmission of the ECB's balance sheet policies

Boeckx, Jef; Bossche, Maarten; Peersman, Gert - 2014

We estimate the effects of exogenous innovations to the balance sheet of the ECB since the start of the financial crisis within a structural VAR framework. An expansionary balance sheet shock stimulates bank lending, stabilizes financial markets, and has a positive impact on economic activity...

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A reassessment of monetary policy surprises and high-frequency identification

Bauer, Michael D.; Swanson, Eric T. - 2022

High-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements are an important tool for identifying the effects of monetary policy on asset prices and the macroeconomy. However, some recent studies have questioned both the exogeneity and the relevance of these monetary policy surprises as...

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Low interest rates and banks' interest margins : does belonging to a banking group matter?

Argimón, Isabel; Danton, Jayson M.; Haan, Jakob de; … - 2021

Using data for a large sample of banks from 31 OECD countries over 1995–2018, we analyze the impact of belonging to a banking group on banks’ net interest margins. Our results confirm a positive relationship between interest rates and interest margins, which is stronger in a low-interest...

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The transmission mechanism of credit support policies in the Euro Area

Boeckx, Jef; Sola Perea, Maite de; Peersman, Gert - 2017

sheets (liquidity effect), banks that depend more on wholesale funding (retail effect) and low-capitalized banks (capital … levels of bank capitalization at the same time mitigate the size, retail and liquidity effects of the policies. The drag on … responded more to the credit support policies of the Eurosystem as a result of more favourable size, retail and liquidity …

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Market-based monetary policy uncertainty

Bauer, Michael D.; Lakdawala, Aeimit; Mueller, Philippe - 2019

This paper investigates the role of monetary policy uncertainty for the transmission of FOMC actions to financial markets using a novel model-free measure of uncertainty based on derivative prices. We document a systematic pattern in monetary policy uncertainty over the course of the FOMC...

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Monetary policy transmission and trade-offs in the United States : old and new

Hofmann, Boris; Peersman, Gert - 2017 - First version: July 2017, this version: October 2017

This study shows that, in the United States, the effects of monetary policy on credit and housing markets have become considerably stronger relative to the impact on GDP since the mid-1980s, while the effects on inflation have become weaker. Macroeconomic stabilization through monetary policy...

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