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A note on temporary supply shocks with aggregate demand inertia
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Simsek, Alp - 2022
aggregate demand gains momentum. If inflation also has inertia, the central bank still overheats the economy during the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012886884
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One country, one vote? : labor market structure and voting rights in the ECB
Berger, Helge; Hefeker, Carsten - 2004
The pending enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) has brought to the fore the discussion of the voting right distribution in the European Central Bank (ECB) council. We show that, in a model where labor unions internalize the inflationary consequences of wage setting, deviating from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402520
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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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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786077
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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 from 2012M6 to 2016M4. We assess the total impact via a counter-factual exercise, country-by-country and through alternative transmission channels. QE anouncement shocks are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488021
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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 officials during the first years of EMU. We focus on statements on monetary policy and the (potential) strength of the euro. We find that the Bundesbank has dominated the news...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507830
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Restructuring the ECB
Berger, Helge; Haan, Jakob de; Inklaar, Robert - 2003
Soon, euro area membership could more than double, with the vast majority of accession countries being quite different in economic terms compared with current members. Under the current decision-making system, this can lead to high decisionmaking costs and there is a risk that monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511101
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The fragility of two monetary regimes : the European monetary system and the Eurozone
Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2013
We analyze the similarities and the differences in the fragility of the European Monetary system (EMS) and the Eurozone … foreign exchange markets while in the Eurozone it was the absence of a lender of last resort in the long-term government bond … Eurozone the roles were reversed. The national central banks that became part of the Eurosystem were strengthened. This came at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210104
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Shadow banks and the risk-taking channel of monetary policy transmission in the Euro Area
Wischnewsky, Arina; Neuenkirch, Matthias - 2018 - First Draft: June 11, 2018
2003Q1 - 2017Q3 and includes, in addition to the standard variables for real GDP growth, inflation, and the monetary policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864635