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shortfalls in inflation and output relative to exogenous trends, and the policy rate is kept at the ELB until the joint shortfall … is made up. Bernanke's second proposal adds only the cumulative inflation shortfall since the beginning of an ELB episode … directly to an otherwise standard Taylor rule. This cumulative shortfall in inflation from the 2 percent objective can be …
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We investigate how liquidity regulations affect banks by examining a dormant monetary policy tool that functions as a liquidity regulation. Our identification strategy uses a regression kink design that relies on the variation in a marginal high-quality liquid asset (HQLA) requirement around an...
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Does banks' exposure to interest rate risk change when interest rates are very low or even negative? Using a high-frequency event study methodology and intraday data, we find that the effect of surprise interest rate cuts announced by the ECB on European bank equity values - an effect that is...
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) could be efficacious in boosting output and inflation in economies facing persistent economic weakness, very low inflation, and … persistently high inflation if the central bank fully adhered to the program; or alternatively, that such a program would be …
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's inflation objectives lie below the average level of inflation and estimates of the real interest rate likely to prevail over the … economic activity and inflation more volatile and systematically falling short of desirable levels. Moreover, the frequency and … that inflation achieves its 2 percent objective and requires that policymakers aim at inflation near 3 percent when the ELB …
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We estimate the effects of the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR), a liquidity requirement for banks, on the tenders that banks submit in Term Deposit Facility operations, a Federal Reserve tool created to manage the quantity of bank reserves. We identify these effects using variation in LCR...
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In recent years, the scale and scope of major central banks' intervention in financial markets has expanded in unprecedented ways. In this paper, we demonstrate how monetary policy implementation that relies on such intervention in financial markets can displace private transactions....
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The Federal Open Market Committee indicated in its September 2017 post-meeting statement that it will initiate in October a balance sheet normalization program to gradually reduce its securities holdings. This action will put in place a policy of reinvesting and redeeming portions of the...
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onward of incomes policy as a weapon against inflation, and U.K. officials' repeated appeals to monetary sovereignty when …
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Speed limit policy, a monetary policy strategy that focuses on stabilizing inflation and the change in the output gap …, consistently delivers better welfare outcomes than flexible inflation targeting or flexible price level targeting in empirical New … inflation targeting strategy, the discretionary speed limit policy performs better for most empirically plausible model …
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