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In this paper, we propose a search and matching model with nominal stickiness à la Calvo in the wage bargaining. We analyze the properties of the model, first, in the context of a typical real business cycle model driven by stochastic productivity shocks and second, in a fully specified...
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-Wicksellian model and then adds banks and a role for bonds in the liquidity management of households and banks. The Banks and Bonds …
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In this paper, we investigate how the dynamic effects of excess liquidity shocks on economic activity, asset prices and … inflation differ over time. We show that the impact varies considerably over time, depends on the source of increased liquidity …
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This paper gives an overview of the present version of the quarterly model for the Belgian economy built at the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). This model can provide quantitative input into the policy analysis and projection processes within a framework that has explicit micro-foundations and...
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I summarize recent progress made in the literature on inflation dynamics. This has been a very productive area of research due to the development of the so-called New Keynesian model and the availability of new macroeconomic and microeconomic evidence. Nevertheless, a number of problems still...
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Anglo-American stock markets are much larger than their continental counterparts. Does investor protection and governance explain these differences? Using UK data, we examine four different forms of intervention which are suppose to promote good governance: takeovers, independent directors,...
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At the request of the Minister for Climate and Energy, Paul Magnette, who is also responsible for Consumer Affairs, the NBB's Microeconomic Analysis Service conducted an investigation into the link between payment arrears for mobile telephony and arrears on loan repayments. In this inquiry,...
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This paper looks at the interplay of volatility and liquidity on the Euronext trading platform during the December 2 …-traded stocks on Euronext, we study the ex-ante liquidity vs volatility and ex-post liquidity vs volatility relationships to … ascertain if the high volatility led to decreases in liquidity and large trading costs. We show that the provision of liquidity …
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Liquidity occupies a central importance for many areas of finance. But there are very disparate views of liquidity, and … correspondingly many different policy implications attached to these views. In this paper, I consider the many faces of liquidity and … their implications for financial market stability. In particular, I focus on the traditional economics view of liquidity as …
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This paper analyses the relationship between the prevailing liquidity conditions (such as measures of money, credit and … sustained excess liquidity, we analyse under which conditions they are more likely to be followed by an asset price boom. The … periods of sustained excess liquidity that are accompanied by strong economic activity, low interest rates, high real credit …
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