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The Gender Promotion Gap : Evidence from Central Banking
Hospido, Laura - 2019
We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...
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Leaning Against the Wind : Macroprudential Policy and the Financial Cycle
Kok, Christoffer - 2019
Should monetary policy lean against financial stability risks? This has been a subject of fierce debate over the last decades. We contribute to the debate about “leaning against the wind” (LAW) along three lines. First, we evaluate the cost and benefits of LAW using the Svensson (2017)...
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The Benefits and Costs of Adjusting Bank Capitalisation : Evidence From Euro Area Countries
Budnik, Katarzyna Barbara - 2019
The paper proposes a framework for assessing the impact of system-wide and bank-level capital buffers. The assessment rests on a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model that relates individual bank adjustments to macroeconomic dynamics. We estimate FAVAR models individually for...
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Assessing the Costs and Benefits of Capital-Based Macroprudential Policy
Behn, Markus - 2016
We develop an integrated Early Warning Global Vector Autoregressive (EW-GVAR) model to quantify the costs and benefits of capital-based macroprudential policy measures. Our findings illustrate that capital-based measures are transmitted both via their impact on the banking system's resilience...
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Fiscal Developments and Financial Stress : A Threshold VAR Analysis
Afonso, António - 2011
.K., Germany and Italy, for the period 1980:4-2009:4, encompassing macro, fiscal and financial variables. The results show that (i …
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Profit Dynamics Across the Largest Euro Area Countries and Sectors
Maurin, Laurent - 2011
This paper explores the behavior of profits in the four largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy and Spain …
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Modeling Euro Area Bond Yields Using a Time-Varying Factor Model
Adam, Tomas - 2017
In this paper, we study the dynamics and drivers of sovereign bond yields in euro area countries using a factor model with time-varying loading coeffi cients and stochastic volatility, which allows for capturing changes in the pricing mechanism of bond yields. Our key contribution is exploring...
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The Cyclicality of Effective Wages Within Employer-Employee Matches : Evidence from German Panel Data
Anger, Silke - 2008
workers who received overtime payments. The procyclicality of earnings revealed for Germany is of comparable size with the one …
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Modelling Ireland's Exchange Rates : From EMS to EMU
Bond, Derek - 2007
This paper attempts to model the nominal and real exchange rate for Ireland, relative to Germany and the UK from 1975 … to 2003. It offers an overview of the theory of purchasing power parity (Ppp), focusing particularly on likely sources of … exchange rates are effectively modelled, and in the case of Ireland and Germany, Ppp is found to be valid not only in the long …
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Mind the Gap : A Multi-Country BVAR Benchmark for the Eurosystem Projections
Angelini, Elena - 2019
The Eurosystem staff forecasts are conditional on the financial markets, the global economy and fiscal policy outlook, and include expert judgement. We develop a multi-country BVAR for the four largest countries of the euro area and we show that it provides accurate conditional forecasts of...
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