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We analytically characterize optimal monetary policy for an augmented New Keynesian model with a housing sector. With rational private sector expectations about housing prices and inflation, optimal monetary policy can be characterized by a standard 'target criterion' that refers to inflation...
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monetary transmission. We show that the use of both the IFO indicator and asset prices improves the performance and … interpretation of a Vector AutoRegression (VAR) model of German monetary transmission. First, we show that the Bundesbank responded …
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transmission mechanism and in the composition of macroeconomic and credit aggregates. In particular, the stronger impact of …
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transmission of monetary policy. We use a panel VAR model which is estimated over the period 19952006 to generate impulse responses … macroeconomic variables is amplified. -- panel VAR model ; house prices ; monetary policy transmission ; country clusters ; sign …
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transmission of monetary policies of the U.S., euro area, Japan, and United Kingdom. Two other studies use international data with … Network (IBRN) on the cross-border transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policy through banks. Teams from ….S. policies, and bank-specific heterogeneity influences the magnitudes of transmission. The effects are supportive of the …
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safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … 2003 2013. Our results suggest that the potential success of OMTs in restoring the monetary transmission mechanism is …
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an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … 2003-2013. Our results suggest that the potential success of OMTs in restoring the monetary transmission mechanism is …
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This paper characterises rules-based fiscal policy setting. Basically, we translate a standard monetary policy rule into a simple fiscal policy rule. We then infer on fiscal policymakers' reaction coefficients by testing the rule with GMM. Interaction is also tested directly by the inclusion of...
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Round numbers affect behavior in various domains, e.g., as prominent thresholds or focal points in bargaining. In line with earlier findings, residential real estate transactions in Germany cluster at round-number prices, but there are also interesting (presumably cultural) differences. We...
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What policy objective should a common central bank in a heterogeneous monetary union pursue? Should it base its decisions on the EU-wide average of inflation and growth or should it instead focus on (appropriately weighted) national welfare losses based on national rates of inflation and growth?...
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