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Most short-term interest rates in the Euro area are below the European Central Bank deposit facility rate, the rate at which the central bank remunerates banks' excess reserves. This unexpected development coincided with the start of the Public Sector Purchase Program (PSPP). In this paper, we...
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This paper investigates the behaviour of credit rating agencies using a natural experiment in monetary policy. We exploit the corporate QE of the Eurosystem and its rating-based specific design which generates exogenous variation in the probability for a bond of becoming eligible for outright...
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for draining excess liquidity in the banking system. While recognizing that there are practical reasons for using central …
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We use a Global VAR model to study spillovers from the Bank of Japan's quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) on …
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on numerous historical documents, we show that liquidity ratios similar to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) were … mechanisms described by contemporary central bankers, in which an increase in the liquidity ratio has contractionary effects …
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Three years have passed since the Bank of Japan's asset purchase program was introduced in 2011, causing a sharp … decline in the value of the Japanese Yen. What would be the implications for Japan and Korea's exporters if the weak Yen is … shocks. We find that if the weak Yen persists, it would strengthen Japan's price competitiveness over time as export prices …
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We compare the effectiveness of Federal Reserve's asset purchase programs in lowering long term yields with that of similar programs implemented by the Bank of England, the Swedish Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank's reserve expansion program. We decompose government bond yields into (i) an...
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This paper investigates the effects of unconventional monetary policy in a small open economy.Using recently proposed shadow interest rates to capture unconventional monetary policy at the zerolower bound (ZLB) we estimate a Bayesian structural vector autoregressive model for Canada - auseful...
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This paper examines the drivers of liquidity shortages in the Mexican government bond market. We use unique transaction …- and quote level data with information on end-investors to construct an index of bond market liquidity. We find that … liquidity remained stable in recent years, although temporary shortages arose amid domestic and global market stress. The …
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This paper explores how much of the movements in the sovereign spreads of Asian economies over the course of the global financial crisis has reflected shifts in (i) global risk aversion; (ii) country-specific risks, directly from worsening fundamentals, and indirectly from spillovers originating...
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