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This paper studies the effects of labor market outcomes on firms' loan demand and on credit intermediation. In a first step, I investigate how wages in the production sector affect bank net worth and the process of financial intermediation in partial equilibrium. Second, the role of the...
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank replaced national collateral lists with a single list specifying which assets euro area banks can pledge as collateral. Banks holding newly eligible assets experience a...
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Exploiting the heteroscedasticity of the changes in short-term and long-term interest rates and exchange rates around the FOMC announcement, we identify three structural monetary policy shocks. We eliminate the predictable part of the shocks and study their effects on financial variables and...
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In this paper we present an empirically stable euro area money demand model. Using a sample period until 2009:2 shows … stability of the euro area money demand function. We also compare single equation methods like the ARDL approach, FM-OLS, CCR …. Hence, FMOLS, CCR and DOLS are useful in estimating standard money demand as well, although they have only been rarely …
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identifies two stable long-run relationships, one of which can be interpreted as a money demand function and a second one as a …
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overall monetary policy strategy. In this respect, money demandmodels provide a framework for explaining monetary developments … are at the zero lower bound, the analysis of money stocks become even more importantfor monetary policy. Therefore, this … money balances, income, the long term interest rate and the own rate of M3holdings. The specification appears to be robust …
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The ECB has accepted increasing amounts of rubbish collateral since the crisis started leading to exposure to serious private sector credit risk (i.e. default risk) on its collateralised lending and reverse operations ("repo"). This has led some commentators to argue that the ECB needs "fiscal...
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sterilise its bond purchases - compensating those purchases through sales of other bonds or money market instruments to keep the … overall money supply unaffected. This is to counter accusations that the ECB is monetizing government debt. This note …
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in order to account for variations within these variables over time. We argue that measures of money and credit growth … the Fed is concerned, the impact of consumer price inflation, and money and credit growth turns negative during the crisis …
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We develop a roadmap of how the ECB should further reduce the volume of money (money supply) and roll back credit …
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