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The euro area experience during the financial crisis highlighted the importance of financial and sovereign risk factors in macroeconomic propagation, as well as the constraints that bank lending fragmentation would pose for monetary policy conduct in a currency union. We design a 6-region...
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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This paper studies how low interest rates weaken the short-run transmission of monetary policy and contract the long-run supply of bank credit. As U.S. bond rates have fallen, the pass-through of monetary shocks to loan and deposit rates has weakened while the spread on U.S. bank loans has...
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The theory of liquidity management under uncertainty predicts that, under certain conditions, commercial banks will accumulate minimum reserve requirements linearly over the reserve maintenance period. This prediction is empirically tested using daily data (from March 2004 until February 2007)...
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wage inflation. Overall, the Ramsey policy together with its simple rule approximations seem to deliver consistent policy …
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Policymakers do not always follow a simple rule for setting policy rates for various reasons and thus their choices are co-driven by a decision to follow a rule or not. Consequently, some observations are censored and cause bias in conventional estimators of typical Taylor rules. To account for...
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explain the cross-correlation between output and inflation? What are the effects of productivity on hours worked? What are the …
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The paper studies the inflation rate associated with optimal monetary and fiscal policy in a number of standard dynamic …, optimal inflation policy requires the validation, that is, the full accommodation of core producer inflation by actual … producer price inflation; (2) Optimal monetary policy implements Bailey-Friedman optimal quantity of money rule. No welfare …
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channel. The impact on the output gap and inflation in 2016 is of the order of 0.2ppt and 0.3ppt respectively. Our estimates … are likely to underestimate the overall impact of the ECB's purchases on interest rates and inflation, as they exclude …
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mechanical influence on CPI inflation and wage dynamics through the indexation schemes. We also illustrate that any fine …-tuning strategy which tries to counteract the direct effects of oil-price changes in headline inflation would prove counterproductive … both in terms to stabilization of underlying inflation and by causing unnecessary volatility in the macroeconomic landscape …
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