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Monetary policy and the current account : theory and evidence
Hjortsoe, Ida; Weale, Martin; Wieladek, Tomasz - 2016
Does the current account improve or deteriorate following a monetary policy expansion? We examine this issue theoretically and empirically. We show that a standard open economy DSGE model predicts that the current account response to a monetary policy shock depends on the degree of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436615
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What drives the German TARGET balances? : evidence from a BVAR approach
Bettendorf, Timo; Jochem, Axel - 2021
Applying a BVAR model, the present paper first identifies the possible drivers of Germany's TARGET claims. In this … studying the causes of current fluctuations in Germany's TARGET claims. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510162
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On the empirical relevance of the exchange rate as a shock absorber at the zero lower bound
Finck, David; Hoffmann, Mathias; Hürtgen, Patrick - 2023 - February 3, 2023
We estimate the effects of a negative asymmetric demand shock on the real exchange rate for the euro area vis-à-vis the United States, Canada, and Japan by state-dependent sign-restricted local projection methods. We find a real depreciation when interest rates are not at the ZLB, but also when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320485
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Fiscal devaluation in a monetary union : conference paper
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2014
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487256
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Fiscal devaluation in a Monetary Union
Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; … - 2013
Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real exchange rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221275
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Transmission of global financial shocks to EMU member states : the role of monetary policy and national factors
Gelman, Maria; Jochem, Axel; Reitz, Stefan - 2016
The paper analyses the transmission of global financial shocks to individual member states of the European Monetary Union (EMU), in which monetary policy is delegated to the ECB and financial markets are fully integrated. Using a panel VAR model, we show that the asymmetric effects of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011495568
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Determinants of TARGET2 transactions of European banks based on micro-data
Drott, Constantin; Goldbach, Stefan; Jochem, Axel - 2022
and profit and loss accounts affect flows with Germany. We control for bilateral bank-specific relationships and time …This paper examines German and foreign bank factors that can explain cross-border central bank liquidity flows between … Germany and the rest of the euro area. Using data from the German component of Eurosystem's real-time gross settlement system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411245
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Monetary policy and unemployment in open economies
Engler, Philipp - 2011
After an expansionary monetary policy shock employment increases and unemployment falls. In standard New Keynesian models the fall in aggregate unemployment does not affect employed workers at all. However, Lüchinger, Meier and Stutzer (2010) found that the risk of unemployment negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009405109
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Information effects of euro area monetary policy : new evidence from high-frequency futures data
Kerssenfischer, Mark - 2019
Central bank announcements move financial markets. The response of inflation and growth expectations, on the other hand … seemingly puzzling results for the euro area and provide evidence that they are due to central bank information effects. That is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972952
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The effect of conventional and unconventional euro area monetary policy on macroeconomic variables
Halberstadt, Arne; Krippner, Leo - 2016
We investigate the e ect of monetary policy on European macroeconomic variables using a small-scale vector autoregression (VAR) and the "Effective Monetary Stimulus" (EMS). The EMS is a monetary policy metric obtained from yield curve data that is designed to consistently reflect the overall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011578396