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decomposing U.S. interest rates changes into two orthogonal shocks: the pure monetary policy shock and the information news shock … countries, with oil exporters with stronger fundamentals withstanding well the shock and oil importers with weaker fundamentals …
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We examine three main channels through which U.S. monetary policy shocks affect firm investment in foreign countries: (1) the balance sheet channel; (2) the financial channel of the exchange rate; and (3) the trade channel. For this purpose, we use quarterly firm-level data for 63 advanced...
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Monetary policy influences inflation dynamics by exerting impact on a diverse array of commodity prices. At high frequencies, we show that a 10 basis points increase in US monetary policy rate reduces commodity prices between 0.5% and 2.5%, after 18 to 24 business days. Beyond the dollar...
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subsample of euro area countries, we show that a) the pass-through in the post-pandemic hiking cycle has been heterogenous … non-financial corporation loans and time deposits in euro area countries; c) differences in pass-through over time and …
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We present evidence of a risk-taking channel of monetary policy for the U.S. banking system. We use confidential data on the internal ratings of U.S. banks on loans to businesses over the period 1997 to 2011 from the Federal Reserve's survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante...
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A distinctive feature of market-provided services is that some of them have close substitutes at home. Households may therefore switch between consuming home and market services in response to changes in the real wage - the opportunity cost of working at home - and changes in the price of market...
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We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
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policy frameworks and the fiscal support in the U.S. and euro area during the pandemic. Moving from a previous target of … "below, but close to 2 percent" to a formal symmetric inflation targeting regime in the euro area or from flexible to average … in the U.S. and the euro area, and a slower withdrawal of fiscal support in the euro area, have a similar impact on …
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effects. The announcement of an ECB euro liquidity line decreases the premium paid by foreign agents to borrow euros in FX … equity prices increase by around 1.75% in euro area countries highly exposed via banking linkages to countries whose …
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This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
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