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Buried in the vaults of central banks : monetary gold hoarding and the slide into the Great Depression
Karau, Sören - 2020 - This draft: October 2020
of narrative information to sharpen shock identification in a structural VAR analysis based on sign restrictions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012405992
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The financial market effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs
Lewis, Vivien; Roth, Markus - 2017
The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712553
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Is it really more dispersed? : measuring and comparing the stress from the common monetary policy in the euro area
Quint, Dominic - 2014
The ECB's one size monetary policy is unlikely to fit all euro area members at all times, which raises the question of how much monetary policy stress this causes at the national level. I measure monetary policy stress as the difference between actual ECB interest rates and Taylor-rule implied...
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Liquidity provision as a monetary policy tool : the ECB's non-standard measures after the financial crisis
Quint, Dominic; Tristani, Oreste - 2017
area. In a structural VAR, we identify a liquidity shock rooted in the interbank market and use its impulse response … Gertler and Kiyotaki (2010). We highlight two main results. First, an identified liquidity shock causes a sizable and … persistent fall in investment. The shock can account for one third of the observed, large fall in euro area aggregate investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764878
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Central bank information shocks and exchange rates
Franz, Thorsten - 2020 - This version: February 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180641
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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, is often small or even counterintuitive. Based on tick-by-tick futures prices on bonds and stock prices, I confirm these seemingly puzzling results for the euro area and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972952
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To sign or not to sign? : on the response of prices to financial and uncertainty shocks
Meinen, Philipp; Röhe, Oke - 2018
that such disturbances are important drivers of output fluctuations in both economies, we find the shock responses of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897983
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Soft budget constraints, European Central Banking and the financial crisis
Jäger, Jannik; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2016
measures. We argue that these unconventional monetary policy measures created soft budget constraints for the Eurozone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456884
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Banks' holdings of risky sovereign bonds in the absence of the nexus : yield seeking with central bank funding or de-risking?
Frey, Rainer; Weth, Mark - 2010
For the largest 55 German banks, we detect the presence of countercyclical yield seeking in the form of acquisition of high-yielding periphery bonds in the period from Q1 2008 to Q2 2011. This investment strategy is pursued by banks not subject to a bailout, banks characterised by high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014102
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Toward a holistic approach to central bank trust
Eickmeier, Sandra; Petersen, Luba - 2024
We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank Household Panel survey for Germany. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from political science and psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors...
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