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The monetary policy of the ECB : a Robin Hood approach?
Drometer, Marcus; Siemsen, Thomas; Watzka, Sebastian - 2013
We derive four sets of counterfactual national interest rate paths for the 17 Euro Area countries for the time period 1999 to 2012. They approximate desirable national interest rates countries would have liked to implement if they could still conduct independent monetary policy. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724004
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Inflation targets versus international monetary integration : a Canadian perspective
Laidler, David E. W. - 2002
economic performance under inflation targets, and arguments that the flexible exchange rate has undermined real economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541166
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Fighting inflation more effectively without transferring central banks' profits to banks
De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2023
current operating procedures and make monetary policies more effective in fighting inflation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014422581
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Reserves for all? : central bank digital currency, deposits, and their (non)-equivalence
Niepelt, Dirk - 2018
I offer a macroeconomic perspective on the "Reserves for All" (RFA) proposal to let the general public use electronic central bank money. After distinguishing RFA from cryptocurrencies and relating the proposal to discussions about narrow banking and the abolition of cash I propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884338
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program ; conference paper
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECB s Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578
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Smells like fiscal policy? : assessing the potential effectiveness of the ECB's OMT program
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Siemsen, Thomas; … - 2014
This paper explores the potential effectiveness of the ECBś Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT) program in safeguarding an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246072
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Trends in monetary policy transparency
Geraats, Petra M. - 2009
policy frameworks. It shows that increases in information disclosure have not been confined to inflation targeting but extend … inflation and economic development have undergone larger increases in transparency. Moreover, it shows that greater transparency … has been followed by lower average inflation. -- Transparency ; monetary policy ; central bank communication ; monetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818025
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Rise of the central bank digital currencies : drivers, approaches and technologies
Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2020
Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. We investigate the economic and institutional drivers of CBDC development and take stock of design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306593
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Monetary policy with reserves and CBDC : optimality, equivalence, and politics
Niepelt, Dirk - 2020
We analyze policy in a two-tiered monetary system. Noncompetitive banks issue deposits while the central bank issues reserves and a retail CBDC. Monies differ with respect to operating costs and liquidity. We map the framework into a baseline business cycle model with “pseudo wedges” and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318352
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CBDC and the operational framework of monetary policy
Abad, Jorge; Nuño, Galo; Thomas, Carlos - 2024
We analyze the impact of introducing a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) on the operational framework of monetary policy and the macroeconomy as a whole. To this end, we develop a New Keynesian model with heterogeneous banks, a frictional interbank market, a central bank with deposit...
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