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Sovereign default risk and banks in a monetary union

Uhlig, Harald - 2013 - This revision: August 12, 2013

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...

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Sovereign risk dynamics in the EU : the time varying relevance of fiscal and external (im)balances

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Monteiro, Sofia - 2024

Acknowledging the potential detrimental impact that twin-deficits may have on sovereign risk, this study uses a two-step approach to assess the impact of fiscal and external sustainability on sovereign risk dynamics for a panel of 27 European Economies between 2001Q4 and 2022Q3. To do so, we...

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Open market operations as a monetary policy shock measure in a quantitative business cycle model

Heer, Burkhard; Schabert, Andreas - 2000

This paper presents a business cycle analysis of monetary policy shocks measured by disturbances to open market operations, i.e. the ratio of open market papers to non-borrowed reserves. We find empirical evidence for the usefulness of this policy measure, as it predicts significant declines in...

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Superneutrality of money under open market operations

Homburg, Stefan - 2015

Monetary policy is superneutral in an overlapping generations model. Previous authors have argued that superneutrality does not hold in such a setting. However, the standard results rely on the counter-factual premise of helicopter money and are overturned if money creation through open market...

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Econometric issues in the analysis of contagion

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Pick, Andreas - 2004

This paper presents a canonical, econometric model of contagion and investigates the conditions under which contagion … the solution is not unique, and for sufficiently large values of the contagion coefficients it has interesting bifurcation … contagion effects in the presence of inter-dependencies the equations for the individual markets or countries must contain …

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Debt stabilization and debt mutualization in a monetary union with endogenous risk premia

Engwerda, Jacob Christiaan; Aarle, Bas van; Weeren, … - 2015

In this paper we analyse debt stabilization in a monetary union that features endogenous risk premia. In particular, we analyse debt stabilization in two diametrically opposed regimes. In the first regime, the "national fiscal discipline regime", financial markets impose sovereign risk premia...

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The relevance or otherwise of the central bank's balance sheet

Miles, David; Schanz, Jochen - 2014

This paper explores the impacts on an economy of a central bank changing the size and composition of its balance sheet. One of the ways in which such asset purchases could influence prices and demand is via portfolio balance effects. We develop and calibrate a simple OLG model in which...

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Channel systems : why is there a positive spread?

Berentsen, Aleksander; Marchesiani, Alessandro; Waller, … - 2010

money market rate and the volumes traded at the ECB's deposit and lending facilities in response to the recent financial …

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The European Central Bank's QE : a new hope

Wieladek, Tomasz; Garcia Pascual, Antonio - 2016

We examine the impact of the ECB's QE on Euro Area real GDP and core CPI with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data … Wieladek (2016). We find that in absence of the first round of ECB QE, real GDP and core CPI would have been 1.3% and 0 …

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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 … find that the Bundesbank has dominated the news coverage. We conclude that ECB statements have mainly influenced volatility …

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