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Look who's talking : ECB communication during the first years of EMU
Jansen, David-Jan; Haan, Jakob de - 2004
This paper studies ECB and Bundesbank communication on monetary policy during the first years of the European Economic and Monetary Union. We study whether statements by different (groups of) central bankers have been contradictory and whether differences have diminished over time. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450560
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Quantitative easing in the euro area : an event study approach
Urbschat, Florian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2017
We examine the effects of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) gradually introduced by the European Central Bank from September 2014 onwards. Studying the short-term reaction of financial markets after APP press releases, we analyse the development of bond yields and spreads around these releases....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743065
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029090
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Monetary policy surprises and exchange rate behavior
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kara, Ali Hakan; Kısacıkoğlu, … - 2020
Central banks unexpectedly tightening policy rates often observe the exchange value of their currency depreciate, rather than appreciate as predicted by standard models. We document this for Fed and ECB policy days using eventstudies and ask whether an information effect, where the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287994
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57 channels (and nothin on) : does TV-news on the Eurozone affect government bond yield spreads?
Wolfinger, Julia; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; … - 2018
news shows of leading TV stations in 12 countries which include 37,859 news on the EU, on the Eurozone and on country …-specific economic issues. We find that an increasing share of news about the Eurozone reduces yield spreads, especially when the news …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955600
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Central bank policies and financial markets : lessons from the Euro crisis
Mody, Ashoka; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2018 - This version: November 20, 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942687
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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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Does central bank communication really lead to better forecasts of policy decisions? : new evidence based on a Taylor rule model for the ECB
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2009
Nowadays, it is widely believed that greater disclosure and clarity over policy may lead to greater predictability of central bank actions. We examine whether communication by the European Central Bank (ECB) adds information compared to the information provided by a Taylor rule model in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872830
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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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The ECB's fiscal policy
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018
moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarises the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011845207