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The international transmission of monetary policy
Buch, Claudia M.; Bussière, Matthieu; Goldberg, Linda S.; … - 2018
transmission of monetary policies of the U.S., euro area, Japan, and United Kingdom. Two other studies use international data with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877813
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Reasons for the demise of interest : savings glut and secular stagnation or central bank policy?
Mayer, Thomas; Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
In this paper we compare the Keynesian, neoclassical and Austrian explanations for low interest rates and sluggish growth. From a Keynesian and neoclassical perspective low interest rates are attributed to ageing societies, which save more for the future (global savings glut). Low growth is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012124862
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Why do trade finance gaps persist : does it matter for trade and development
Auboin, Marc; DiCaprio, Alisa - 2017
Trade finance shortfalls now appear regularly. Does this matter for trade expansion and economic development in developing countries? Global trade finance has resumed following the 2009 global financial crisis. However, the pattern of recovery has been uneven across countries and categories of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011645906
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Global banking, trade, and the international transmission of the great recession
Born, Alexandra; Enders, Zeno - 2018
large parts of the world. In this paper we explore the financial and the trade channel in a unified framework and quantify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800166
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The financial channel of the exchange rate and global trade
Ma, Sai; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2023
This paper provides evidence that the U.S. dollar affects countries' exports through the financial channel of the exchange rate (Bruno and Shin (2015)). Using global data on trade between countries whose currency is not the U.S. dollar, it documents a positive relationship between the dollar and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014293276
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Unbalanced financial globalization
Capelle, Damien; Pellegrino, Bruno - 2023
We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … capital allocation, a 2.8% lower world GDP, a 12% rise in the cross-country dispersion of GDP per capita, lower wages in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340224
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Currency wars and trade
Mitchener, Kris; Wandschneider, Kirsten - 2024
The Great Depression is the canonical case of a widespread currency war, with more than 70 countries devaluing their currencies relative to gold between 1929 and 1936. What were the currency war’s effects on trade flows? We use newly-compiled, highfrequency bilateral trade data and gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015178449
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Climate change mitigation : how effective is green quantitative easing?
Abiry, Raphael; Ferdinandusse, Marien; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2022
We develop a two sector incomplete markets integrated assessment model to analyse the effectiveness of green quantitative easing (QE) in complementing fiscal policies for climate change mitigation. We model green QE through an outstanding stock of private assets held by a monetary authority and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285512
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Sovereign defaults : the price of haircuts
Cruces, Juan J.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2011
A main puzzle in the sovereign debt literature is that defaults have only minor effects on subsequent borrowing costs and access to credit. This paper comes to a different conclusion. We construct the first complete database of investor losses ("haircuts") in all restructurings with foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307940
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The role of political institutions for the effectiveness of central bank independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011
This paper empirically studies the impact of the quality of political institutions on the link between central bank independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible nonlinearities, we employ interaction models to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012047