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The dynamic effects of ECB announcements, disentangled into pure monetary policy and central bank information shocks, on the euro (EUR) exchange rate are examined using a Bayesian Proxy Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model fed with high-frequency data. Contractionary monetary policy shocks result...
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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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This paper investigates the financial market effects of the ECB's communication on the Pandemic Emergency Purchase … Programme (PEPP). Using data for 10 euro area countries, we first analyse the impact of different communication channels such as … whether spreads react differently to communication by specific ECB Executive Board members. Markets turn out to be sensitive …
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of central bank communication has increased over time. Employing readability measures as proxy variables, we find that …
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We analyse the relationship between global liquidity and exchange market pressure in 32 emerging market economies. Exchange market pressure is a measure of excess currency demand that is applicable across different exchange rate regimes as it accounts for changes in exchange rates, foreign...
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Dynamic factor models and external instrument identification are two recent advances in the empirical macroeconomic literature. This paper combines the two approaches in order to study the effects of monetary policy shocks. I use this novel framework to re-examine the effects found by Forni and...
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Using confidential daily data, we analyse how the intervention episode of the Bank of Israel (BOI) from 2013 to 2019 … unaffected. We also find that the USD/ILS options market anticipates intervention episodes and prices them in before they occur. …
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We estimate the "unhedged interest rate exposure" (URE) of euro area households. The URE is a welfare metric that captures the extent to which households are exposed to changes in real interest rates, and reflects the direct gains and losses in interest income flows incurred by households after...
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Using federal funds futures data, we show the importance of surprise communication as a component of monetary policy … policy communication for asset prices, much of the subsequent VAR literature attributes all effects of monetary policy on … "communication shocks" (surprise announcements about future policy moves), both orthogonal to internal Fed information. To do so …
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Could a monetary policy loosening in a low interest rate environment have unintended recessionary effects? Using a non-linear macroeconomic model fitted to the euro area economy, we show that the effectiveness of monetary policy can decline in negative territory until it reaches a turning point,...
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