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Driven by the markets? : ECB sovereign bond purchases and the securities markets programme

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

addresses how effective these sterilisation policies are. -- Accountability ; bail-out ; bond purchases ; central bank … independence ; insolvency risk ; Securities Markets Programme ; transparency … Analysten äußern Bedenken, dass durch die Anleihenkäufe von nun an die Geldpolitik von den nationalen Fiskalpolitiken dominiert …

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How much fiscal backing must the ECB have? : The Euro Area is not the Philippines

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

The ECB has accepted increasing amounts of rubbish collateral since the crisis started leading to exposure to serious private sector credit risk (i.e. default risk) on its collateralised lending and reverse operations (“repo”). This has led some commentators to argue that the ECB needs...

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A more effective euro area monetary policy than OMTs : gold-backed sovereign debt

Belke, Ansgar - 2013

This paper argues that using gold as collateral for highly distressed bonds would bring great benefits to the euro area in terms of reduced financing costs and bridge-financing. It is mindful of the legal issues that this will raise and that such a suggestion will be highly controversial....

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QE in the euro area : has the PSPP benefited peripheral bonds?

Belke, Ansgar; Gros, Daniel - 2019

The asset purchase programme of the euro area, active between 2015 and 2018, constitutes an interesting special case of Quantitative Easing (QE) because the ECB’s Public Sector Purchase Programme (PSPP) involved the purchase of peripheral euro area government bonds, which were clearly not...

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Long-term interest rate spillovers from major advanced economies to emerging Asia

Belke, Ansgar; Dubova, Irina; Volz, Ulrich - 2016

This paper explores the extent to which changes to long-term interest rates in major advanced economies have influenced long-term government bond yields in Emerging Asia. To gauge long-term interest spillover effects, the paper uses VAR variance decompositions with high frequency data. Our...

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