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Firm and establishment volatility : the role of sunk costs, profit uncertainty and technological change

Ghosal, Vivek - 2003

of firm volatility across industries: for example, sunk capital costs, uncertainty about profits and technological change … measure uncertainty about profits and technological change, while the latter enables us to obtain information on the industry …. Our empirical findings show that: (1) industries with higher sunk capital costs and profit uncertainty have significantly …

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Monetary policy and Swedish unemployment fluctuations

Alexius, Annika (contributor); Holmlund, Bertil (contributor) - 2007

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"Whatever it takes" to resolve the European sovereign debt crisis? : bond pricing regime switches and monetary policy effects

Afonso, António; Arghyrou, Michael Georgiou; Gadea, … - 2017

This paper investigates the role of unconventional monetary policy as a source of time-variation in the relationship between sovereign bond yield spreads and their fundamental determinants. Our results provide evidence of a new bond-pricing regime following the announcement of the Outright...

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The interest rate pass-through in the Euro area during the global financial crisis : conference paper

Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013

This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is...

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High and low prices and the range in the European stock markets : a long-memory approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; Poza, Carlos - 2019

This paper uses fractional integration techniques to examine the stochastic behaviour of high and low stock prices in Europe and then to test for the possible existence of long-run linkages between them by looking at the range, i.e., the difference between the two logged series. Specifically,...

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Equity price dynamics before and after the introduction of the euro : a note

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Westermann, Frank - 2001

Daily data from the German and U.S. equity markets before and after the introduction of the Euro are used to study the effect of exchange rate regime choices on equity markets. It is found that, since the introduction of the Euro, the volatility and the persistence of the German stock index have...

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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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Statements of ECB officials and their effect on the level and volatility of the Euro-Dollar exchange rate

Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2003

This paper studies the reaction of the mean and volatility of the euro-dollar exchange rate to statements of ECB officials during the first years of EMU. We focus on statements on monetary policy and the (potential) strength of the euro. We find that the Bundesbank has dominated the news...

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The transmission mechanism of credit support policies in the Euro Area

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

We use an original monthly dataset of 131 individual euro area banks to examine the effectiveness and transmission mechanism of the Eurosystem's credit support policies since the start of the crisis. First, we show that these policies have indeed been succesful in stimulating the credit flow of...

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Measuring euro area monetary policy

Altavilla, Carlo; Brugnolini, Luca; Gürkaynak, Refet S.; … - 2019

We study the information flow from the ECB on policy dates since its inception, using tick data. We show that three factors capture about all of the variation in the yield curve but that these are different factors with different variance shares in the window that contains the policy decision...

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