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Cross-border banking and transmission mechanisms : the case of Europe
Buch, Claudia M. - 2001
International activities of commercial banks are a potential source for the transmission of shocks across countries. In Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for financial institutions. This paper reviews the stylized...
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Spillover effects from euro area monetary policy across the EU : a factor-augmented VAR approach
Potjagailo, Galina - 2016
I analyze spillover effects from Euro area monetary policy shocks to thirteen EU countries outside the Euro area, i.e., ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and three Western EU members. The analysis is based on a FAVAR model with two blocks which exploits a large cross-country...
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The link of the monetary indicator to future inflation in the euro area : a simulation experiment
Gottschalk, Jan; Stolz, Stéphanie Marie - 2001
We examine the indicator property of the monetary indicator for inflation. Using a P*-model, Svensson shows theoretically in a recent paper that the relationship between these two variables is rather tenuous. The present study employs empirical evidence on the relations in his model to quantify...
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Measuring the effects of monetary policy in the euro area : the role of anticipated policy
Gottschalk, Jan; Höppner, Florian - 2001
This paper investigates within a SVAR framework the effects of anticipated monetary policy in the euro area. Building on a procedure recently proposed by Cochrane which yields the response of output to an anticipated monetary policy impulse, we show that in the past twenty years anticipated...
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Announcements of ECB unconventional programs : implications for the sovereign risk of Italy
Falagiarda, Matteo; Reitz, Stefan - 2013
This paper studies the effects of ECB communications about unconventional monetary policy operations on the perceived sovereign risk of Italy over the last five years. More than fifty events concerning non-standard operations are identified and classified with respect to the specific ECB...
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Measures of the output gap in the Euro-zone : an empirical assessment of selected methods
Chagny, Odile; Döpke, Jörg - 2001
die Euro-Zone. Obwohl die Methoden einige wichtige gemeinsame Eigenschaften aufweisen, zeigen sie auch erhebliche …The paper discusses some widely used methods for estimating output gaps based on aggregated data for the eurozone … methods commonly used have only limited information content for inflation forecasting in the euro-zone. Conclusions for …
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Monetary conditions in the euro area : useful indicators of aggregate demand conditions?
Gottschalk, Jan - 2001
This paper reviews the usefulness of monetary conditions in the euro area as leading indicators for aggregate demand conditions. Monetary conditions are measured with the MCI concept proposed by the Bank of Canada, and with the yield spread. A central result is that causality runs in both ways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474154
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Predicting inflation in Euroland : the Pstar approach
Scheide, Joachim; Trabandt, Mathias - 2000
Inflation is a monetary phenomenon. While this statement is widely accepted in terms of a long-run relationship, the quantity theory has been made operational also for the short-run dynamics of inflation by so-called Pstar models. An error correction model with quarterly data for the Euro Area...
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Monetary aggregates to improve early output gap estimates in the euro area -- an empirical assessment
Boysen-Hogrefe, Jens - 2014
Output gap estimates at the current edge are subject to severe revisions. This study analyzes whether monetary aggregates can be used to improve the reliability of early output gap estimates as proposed by several theoretical models. A real-time experiment shows that real M1 can improve output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248220
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Real and financial integration in Europe : evidence for the accession states and for the pre-ins
Buch, Claudia M.; Döpke, Jörg - 1999
The process of European integration has gained considerable momentum during the past couple of years. This paper provides an assessment of the degree of integration of both the accession states of central and eastern Europe and of the pre-ins for monetary union with respect to Germany. Using...
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