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Solving RE models with discontinuous policy rules : an application to minimum wage setting in Germany
Bursian, Dirk - 2016
The legal regulations require the minimum wage in Germany to be adjusted biennially which gives rise to a policy … minimum wage setting in Germany, the paper illustrates how such models can be solved using the method of undetermined …
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Bargaining power and outside options in the interbank lending market
Abbassi, Puriya; Bräuning, Falk; Schulze, Niels - 2017
We study the role of bargaining power and outside options for the pricing of over-the-counter interbank loans using a bilateral Nash bargaining model and test the model predictions with detailed transaction-level data from the euro-area interbank market. We find that lender banks with greater...
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Crisis? : what Crisis? : currency vs. banking in the financial crisis of 1931
Ritschl, Albrecht; Salferaz, Samad - 2010
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The case for a positive euro area inflation target : evidence from France, Germany and Italy
Adam, Klaus; Gautier, Erwan; Santoro, Sergio; Weber, Henning - 2021
Using micro price data underlying the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices in France, Germany and Italy, we estimate … France, 1.2%-2.0% in Germany, 0.8%-1.0% in Italy, and 1.1-1.7% in the Euro Area (three country average). Differences across …
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Scarcity effects of QE : a transaction-level analysis in the Bund market
Schlepper, Kathi; Riordan, Ryan; Hofer, Heiko; … - 2017
This paper investigates the scarcity effects of quantitative easing (QE) policies, drawing on intra-day transaction-level data for German government bonds, purchased under the Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP) of the ECB/Eurosystem. This paper is the first to match high-frequency QE purchase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632212
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A novel housing price misalignment indicator for Germany
Hertrich, Markus - 2019
From 2014 until present, housing prices in Germany have been rising faster than consumer prices in all quarters except …
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Quantitative easing, portfolio rebalancing and credit growth : micro evidence from Germany
Tischer, Johannes - 2018
This paper sheds light on the effect of quantitative easing (QE) on bank lending. Using data on German banks for 2014-2016, I show that QE encourages banks to rebalance from securities to loans. For identification, I use bond redemptions as exogenous variation in banks' need to rebalance their...
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Unconventional monetary policy, bank lending, and security holdings : the yield-induced portfolio rebalancing channel
Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2018
Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. Using a difference-in-differences regression setup and holding the security composition of each bank constant at its level in January 2014, well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874277
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Rebalancing the euro area : is wage adjustment in Germany the answer?
Hoffmann, Mathias; Kliem, Martin; Krause, Michael; … - 2020
We assess to what extent wage inflation policies in Germany could contribute to an economic rebalancing in the euro … and output in Germany and the rest of the euro area. The duration of constant interest rates and expectations about the … consists of Germany, the rest of the euro area, and the rest of the world. …
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Liquidity in the German corporate bond market : has the CSPP made a difference?
Boneva, Lena; Islami, Mevlud; Schlepper, Kathi - 2021
The Eurosystem purchased €178 billion of corporate bonds between June 2016 and December 2018 under the Corporate Sector Purchase Programme (CSPP). Did these purchases lead to a deterioration of liquidity conditions in the corporate bond market, thus raising concerns about unintended...
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