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This paper examines the Taylor rule in five emerging economies, namely Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Thailand, and Turkey. In particular, it investigates whether monetary policy in these countries can be more accurately described by (i) an augmented rule including the exchange rate, as well as...
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We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of countries. To overcome an endogeneity problem between monetary regimes and the likelihood of crises, we propose to study large natural disasters. We find that inflation targeting...
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We examine the credit channel of monetary policy from 2000 to 2015 in the Euro Area using daily monetary policy shock and credit risk measures in an autoregressive distributed lag model. We find that an expansionary monetary policy shock leads to a short-run increase in the credit risk of...
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We examine whether monetary transmission during the financial and sovereign debt crisis was dominated by the cost channel or by the demand-side channel effect. We use two approaches to track down the potential pass through of changes in the monetary policy rate to those in consumer prices....
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The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of wind power plants and other renewable energy power generating technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG-power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation,...
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Money growth in the euro area has exceeded its target since 2001. Likewise, recent empirical studies did not find evidence in favour of a stable long run money demand function. The equation appears to be increasingly unstable if more recent data are used. If the link between money balances and...
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This paper investigates the relationship between global liquidity and commodity and food prices applying a global … cointegrated vector-autoregressive model. We use different measures of global liquidity and various indices of commodity and food … liquidity and the development of food and commodity prices, and that food and commodity prices adjust significantly to this …
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This study analyses how liquidity risk affects bonds' yield spreads after controlling for credit risk, bond …-specific characteristics and macroeconomic variables. Using two liquidity estimates, LOT liquidity and the bid-ask spread, we find that, in … particular, the LOT liquidity measure has explanatory power for the yield spread of green bonds. Overall, however, the impact of …
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drivers of asset prices are global liquidity conditions. Central banks flooded the markets with ample liquidity. Mopping up … this excess liquidity will be one major task for central banks worldwide, which needs to be done in a coordinated fashion …. Moreover, our analysis has shown that liquidity will first show up in asset price inflation and only later in consumer goods …
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central banks. One hot topic is whether the rise in liquidity in recent years has contributed to the formation of price … limit speculative runs and negative effects on the real economy in the future. We explore the impacts of liquidity shocks on … real share and house prices and the influence of wealth prices on liquidity. VAR models are specified for the US and the …
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