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Unconventional green
Zaghini, Andrea - 2023
We analyze the effects of the PEPP (Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme), the temporary quantitative easing implemented by the ECB immediately after the burst of the Covid-19 pandemic. We show that the differences in aim, size and flexibility with respect to the traditional Corporate Sector...
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Why bank money creation?
Gersbach, Hans; Zelzner, Sebastian - 2022 - This version: April 20, 2022
We provide a rationale for bank money creation in our current monetary system by investigating its merits over a system with banks as intermediaries of loanable funds. The latter system could result when CBDCs are introduced. In the loanable funds system, households limit banks' leverage ratios...
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Transparency in monetary policy
Remsperger, Hermann; Worms, Andreas - 1999
For some time now the buzzword 'transparency' has been bandied about in the media almost daily. For example, calls were … made for greater transparency in the financial system in connection with developments in the Asian financial markets. But … the call for greater transparency goes far beyond the financial markets. It is now regarded as a necessary part of "good …
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The death of a regulator : strict supervision, bank lending and business activity
Leuz, Christian; Granja, João - 2018
An important question in banking is how strict supervision affects bank lending and in turn local business activity. Forcing banks to recognize losses could choke off lending and amplify local economic woes, especially after financial crises. But stricter supervision could also lead to changes...
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Unconventional monetary policy and corporate bond issuance
De Santis, Roberto A.; Zaghini, Andrea - 2021
We assess the effect and the timing of the corporate arm of the ECB quantitative easing (CSPP) on corporate bond issuance. Because of several contemporaneous mea- sures, to isolate the programme effects we rely on one key eligibility feature: the euro denomination of newly issued bonds. We find...
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The European sovereign debt crisis : what have we learned?
Kräussl, Roman; Lehnert, Thorsten; Stefanova, Denitsa - 2017
This paper sets the background for the Special Issue of the Journal of Empirical Finance on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis. It identifies the channel through which risks in the financial industry leaked into the public sector. It discusses the role of the bank rescues in igniting the...
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Fragmentation and heterogeneity in the euro-area corporate bond market : back to normal?
Zaghini, Andrea - 2016
We assess the degree of market fragmentation in the euro-area corporate bond market by disentangling the determinants of the risk premium paid on bonds at origination. By looking at over 2,400 bonds we are able to isolate the country-specific effects which are a suitable indicator of the market...
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Inflation targeting as a monetary policy rule
Svensson, Lars E. O. - 1998 - This version: August 1998
The purpose of the paper is to survey and discuss inflation targeting in the context of monetary policy rules. The paper provides a general conceptual discussion of monetary policy rules, attempts to clarify the essential characteristics of inflation targeting, compares inflation targeting to...
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Monetary policy in Turkey after Central Bank independence
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kantur, Zeynep; Tas, M. Anil; … - 2015
We present an accessible narrative of the Turkish economy since its great 2001 crisis. We broadly survey economic developments and pay particular attention to monetary policy. The data suggests that the Central Bank of Turkey was a strong inflation targeter early in this period but began to pay...
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EMU and capital markets : the institutional framework
Gros, Daniel - 1998
This paper reviews the factors that will determine the shape of financial markets under EMU. It argues that financial markets will not be unified by the introduction of the euro. National central banks have a vested interest in preserving local idiosyncracies (e.g. the Wechsels in Germany) and...
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