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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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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...

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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

I study whether monetary gold hoarding was the main cause of the Great Depression in a structural VAR analysis. The notion that monetary forces played an important role in bringing about the depression is well established in the narrative literature, but has more recently met some skepticism by...

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A KISS for central bank communication in times of high inflation

Hoffmann, Mathias; Mönch, Emanuel; Pavlova, Lora; … - 2025 - This draft: March 24, 2025

During the post-pandemic inflation surge, many central banks actively used communication about the inflation outlook as … a policy tool to limit spillovers from realized to expected inflation. We present novel survey evidence showing that the … ECB's guidance about the projected inflation path substantially lowers households' inflation expectations in times of …

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A KISS for central bank communication in times of high inflation

Hoffmann, Mathias; Mönch, Emanuel; Pavlova, Lora; … - 2025 - This draft: June 3, 2025

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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...

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Banking crises under a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Bitter, Lea - 2023

One of the main concerns associated with central bank digital currencies (CBDC) is the disintermediating effect on the banking sector in general, and the risk of bank runs in times of crisis in particular. This paper examines the implications of an interest-bearing CBDC on banking crises in a...

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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...

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The augmented bank balance-sheet channel of monetary policy

Bittner, Christian; Bonfim, Diana; Heider, Florian; … - 2022

This paper studies how banks’ balance sheets and funding costs interact in the transmission of monetary-policy rates to banks’ credit supply to firms. To do so, we use credit-registry data from Germany and Portugal together with the European Central Bank’s policy-rate cuts in mid-2014. The...

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Do financial markets react to Bank of England communication?

Reeves, Rachel (contributor); Sawicki, Michael (contributor) - 2005

Policy Committee meetings and the Inflation Report significantly affect near-term interest rate expectations, an effect …

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