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Mixing QE and interest rate policies at the effective lower bound : micro evidence from the euro area
Bittner, Christian; Rodnyansky, Alexander; Saidi, Farzad; … - 2021 - First version: June 15, 2021, this version: October 12, 2021
In the presence of negative monetary-policy rates and a zero lower bound on deposit rates, banks that are more exposed to central banks' asset-purchase programs reduce their lending to the real economy by more than their counterparts. When banks face a lower bound on customer deposit rates, an...
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How banks respond to negative interest rates : evidence from the Swiss exemption threshold
Basten, Christoph; Mariathasan, Mike - 2018
Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795014
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Forward guidance contracts
Gersbach, Hans; Hahn, Volker; Liu, Yulin - 2015 - This version: May 2015
We examine "Forward Guidance Contracts", which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a exible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity trap....
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Monetary policy interactions : the policy rate, asset purchases, and optimal policy with an interest rate Peg
Gödl-Hanisch, Isabel; Mau, Ronald; Rawls, Jonathan - 2023
We study monetary policy in a New Keynesian model with a variable credit spread and scope for central bank asset … curve and a credit wedge in the IS curve. The "divine coincidence" holds with the nominal short-term rate and central bank …
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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
an appropriate monetary policy transmission. Since the program aims at manipulating bank lending rates by conducting … sovereign bond purchases on secondary markets, a stable relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …
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European Central Bank
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...
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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 …
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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
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 relationship between bank lending rates and government bond rates is of … this relationship by focusing on the reaction of bank lending rates to movements in government bond rates over the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480578
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The ECB's fiscal policy
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2018
While the ECB helped mitigate the euro crisis in the aftermath of Lehman, it has stretched its monetary mandate and moved into fiscal territory. This text describes and summarises the crucial role played by the ECB in the intervention spiral resulting from its bid to manage the crisis. It also...
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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective
Schnabl, Gunther - 2017
The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...
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