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Monetary transmission right from the start : the (dis)connection netween the money market and the ECB’s main refinancing rates
Abbassi, Puriya; Nautz, Dieter - 2010
The relation between the ECB's main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO auctions. Our results confirm a stabilizing level...
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The effectiveness of monetary policy in steering money market rates during the financial crisis
Abbassi, Puriya; Linzert, Tobias - 2012
The financial crisis has deeply affected money markets and thus, potentially, the proper functioning of the interest rate channel of monetary policy transmission. Therefore, we analyze the effectiveness of monetary policy in steering euro area money market rates looking at, first, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009564491
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Negative monetary policy rates and systemic banks' risk-taking : evidence from the euro area securities register
Bubeck, Johannes; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis - 2020
We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more...
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Going below zero - how do banks react?
Michaelis, Henrike - 2022
Exploiting confidential data on individual German bank balance-sheets, I analyse what characterises a bank that opts to apply negative interest rates to corporate deposits. The results suggest that banks that are highly exposed to the negative interest rate policy (NIRP), i.e. funded by a larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361902
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Excess reserves and monetary policy tightening
Fricke, Daniel; Greppmair, Stefan; Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2024 - This draft: February 2, 2024
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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Cross-border transmission of emergency liquidity
Kick, Thomas; Koetter, Michael; Storz, Manuela - 2016
We show that emergency liquidity provision by the Federal Reserve transmitted to non-U.S. banking markets. Based on manually collected holding company structures of international banks, we can identify banks in Germany with access to U.S. facilities via internal capital markets. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538689
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Inflation expectations, disagreement, and monetary policy
Hoffmann, Mathias; Hürtgen, Patrick - 2016
Survey data on inflation expectations show that: (i) private sector forecasts and central bank forecasts are not fully aligned and (ii) private sector forecasters disagree about inflation expectations. To reconcile these two facts we introduce dispersed information in a New Keynesian model,...
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Toothless tiger with claws? : financial stability communication, expectations, and risk-taking
Beutel, Johannes; Metiu, Norbert; Stockerl, Valentin - 2021
We study the effects of central bank communication about financial stability on individuals’ expectations and risk …-taking. Using a randomized information experiment, we show that communication causally affects individuals’ beliefs and investment … behavior, consistent with an expectations channel of financial stability communication. Individuals receiving a warning from …
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Optimal monetary policy using reinforcement learning
Hinterlang, Natascha; Tänzer, Alina - 2021
This paper introduces a reinforcement learning based approach to compute optimal interest rate reaction functions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792732
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Do financial markets react to Bank of England communication?
Reeves, Rachel (contributor); Sawicki, Michael (contributor) - 2005
communication. We might expect interest rate expectations, and potentially other asset prices, to react to official communication if … such communication helps inform market participants. We find evidence that the publication of the Minutes of the Monetary … for the UK are arguably less strong than Kohn and Sack’s (2003) findings for US Federal Reserve communication. Although …
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