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We tackle two questions in this paper: In the sovereign debt crisis, what moves the euro area inflation outlook and has the firm anchoring of medium to long-term inflation expectations been touched? Deriving densities from a new data set on options on the euro area harmonized index of consumer...
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liquidity tightened after the Lehman collapse but there is no evidence of fire sales in the German banking sector. Instead, we … observe a broad-based flight to liquidity. The European Central Bank's unconventional monetary policy had a strong impact on … banks' trading behavior by inducing shifts towards eligible securities and reducing pressure on market liquidity. This …
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transactional level allows me to apply advanced panel methods. Furthermore, this paper shows liquidity hoarding during the pandemic …
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Using micro price data underlying the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices in France, Germany and Italy, we estimate relative price trends over the product life cycle and show that minimizing price and mark-up distortions in the presence of these trends requires targeting a significantly positive...
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This paper analyzes the time-varying credibility of the Fed's inflation target in an empirical macro model with asymmetric information, where the public has to learn about the actual inflation target from the Fed's interest rate policy. To capture the evolving communication strategy of the Fed,...
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We show that the transmission of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent monetary policy tightening differs across banks depending on their level of excess reserves. Specifically, the net worth of reserve-rich banks may display a boost when the interest rate paid on reserves increases...
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We explore the concept of global liquidity based on a factor model estimated using a large set of financial and … macroeconomic variables from 24 advanced and emerging market economies. We measure global liquidity conditions based on the common … global factors in the dynamics of liquidity indicators. By imposing theoretically motivated sign restrictions on factor …
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We show that emergency liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve transmitted to non-U.S. banking markets. Based on … lending and borrowing rates of banks with and without such access. U.S. liquidity shocks cause a significant decrease in the …
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In this paper we introduce two measures, the Systemic Liquidity Buffer (SLB) and the Systemic Liquidity Shortfall (SLS …) to assess liquidity in the banking system. The SLB takes an aggregated perspective on liquidity risks in the banking … system. In contrast, the SLS focusses on the problematic banks which suffer a liquidity shortfall. These measures provide an …
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