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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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This paper sheds light on the functioning of internal capital markets by analysing money market transactions within the German cooperatives and savings banks finance groups. Using a unique dataset, the money market statistical reporting, this is the first paper to explicitly analyze the...
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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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This paper investigates how the ordering of variables affects properties of the time-varying covariance matrix in the Cholesky multivariate stochastic volatility model.It establishes that systematically different dynamic restrictions are imposed whenthe ratio of volatilities is time-varying....
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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...
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From 2014 until present, housing prices in Germany have been rising faster than consumer prices in all quarters except …
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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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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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monetary contraction. But given Germany's central role in the European Monetary System (EMS), we can also shed light on debates …
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