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conditions, any attempt by the European Central Bank to further mitigate the demand-driven inflationary pressures---to maintain …
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whether the central bank chooses to buy domestic or foreign assets, thus resulting in transfers either within or between … compensates for losses (the structure of indemnification agreements). Data from the Federal Reserve, the Eurosystem, and the Bank … of England show that maximum annual losses are between 0.3 and 1.5 percent of GDP. By contrast, the Swiss National Bank …
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The European Central Bank is unique in setting monetary policy for several sovereign states with heterogeneous debt … on one particular aspect of that nexus, the effect the reliability of the European Central Bank's monetary policy on … Euro Area countries. For comparison we also estimate the fiscal consequences of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England …
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We show that firms' nominal required returns to capital (i.e., their discount rates) are sticky with respect to expected inflation. Such nominally sticky discount rates imply that increases in expected inflation directly lower firms' real discount rates and thereby raise real investment. We...
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symmetry to domain over which the central bank can vary its policy rate. They are: (1) abolishing currency (which would also be …
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important benefits and is the responsibility of a central bank. Achieving price stability in a complex and uncertain environment … overheating economy. Associated challenges imply that central bank communication and transparency are key elements of monetary …
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We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank … psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors influencing central bank trust that is more holistic than the …
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variation in the supply of central bank liabilities. In effect, the announcement effect has displaced the liquidity effect as … bank to lend or absorb reserves in response to differences between the policy interest rate and the corresponding target. A …, but not on the current level per se, then the central bank can alter the market-clearing interest rate with no change in …
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This paper studies how household inequality shapes the effects of the zero lower bound (ZLB) on nominal interest rates on aggregate dynamics. To do so, we consider a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with an occasionally binding ZLB and solve for its fully non-linear stochastic...
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This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time reaction to and interpretation of incoming data in 2021, and the pivot to raising rates and shrinking the balance sheet that commenced in 2022 and continues in 2023. Particular...
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