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Panacea, Curse, or Nonevent? Unconventional Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom
Meier, André - 2009
The Bank of England's current ""quantitative easing"" strategy has given rise to a controversial debate about the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677826
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Inflation Targeting at 20
Roger, Scott - 2009
This paper provides an overview of inflation targeting frameworks and macroeconomic performance under inflation targeting. Inflation targeting frameworks are generally quite similar across countries, and a broad consensus has developed in favor of ""flexible"" inflation targeting. The evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677863
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Central Bank Response to the 2007-08 Financial Market Turbulence
Stella, Peter - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012678161
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The Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policies on Bank Soundness
Lambert, Frederic; Ueda, Kenichi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
policy surprises, we do not detect clear effects of monetary easing on bank stock valuation but find a deterioration of … medium-term bank credit risk in the United States, the euro area, and the United Kingdom. Second, in panel regressions using … U.S. banks’ balance sheet information, we show that bank profitability and risk taking are ambiguously affected, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142163
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Securitization: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead
Basurto, Miguel A. Segoviano; Jones, Bradley; Lindner, Peter - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
This paper examines the financial stability implications arising from securitization markets, with one eye on the past and another on the future. The paper begins by deriving a number of “lessons learned†based on an examination of key industry developments in the years before the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142086
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Macrofinancial modeling at central banks : recent developments and future directions
Roger, Scott; Vlček, Jan - 2012
This paper surveys dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with financial frictions in use by central banks and discusses priorities for future development of such models for the purpose of monetary and financial stability analysis. It highlights the need to develop macrofinancial models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009423918
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Peru : monetary and exchange rate policies, 1930 – 1980
Pastor, Gonzalo - 2012
This paper reviews monetary and exchange rate policies in Peru in 1930-80. The review covers major transformations to the world economy, including the post-1929 crash and WWII, and changing economic paradigms, such as the collapse of the gold standard and the rise and fall of the Bretton Woods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618509
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Monetization in low- and middle-income countries
McLoughlin, Cameron; Kinoshita, Noriaki - 2012
The degree of an economy's monetization, which has an important implication on economic growth, can be affected by the conduct of monetary policy, financial sector reform, and episodes of financial crises. The paper finds that monetization--measured by the ratio of broad money to nominal GDP--...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618525
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Policy analysis and forecasting in the world economy : a panel unobserved components approach
Vitek, Francis - 2012
This paper develops a structural macroeconometric model of the world economy, disaggregated into thirty five national economies. This panel unobserved components model features a monetary transmission mechanism, a fiscal transmission mechanism, and extensive macrofinancial linkages, both within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618572
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How effective is monetary transmission in low-income countries? : a survey of the empirical evidence
Mishra, Prachi; Montiel, Peter - 2012
This paper surveys the evidence on the effectiveness of monetary transmission in low-income countries. It is hard to come away from this review with much confidence in the strength of monetary transmission in such countries. We distinguish between the ""facts on the ground"" and ""methodological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009618588