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This paper investigates how the introduction of an interest-bearing central bank digital currency (CBDC) that serves as a perfect substitute for bank deposits as an electronic means of payment affects monetary policy pass-through. When the deposit market is not fully competitive, the CBDC tends...
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Macroprudential policies are often aimed at the traditional banking sector while nondepository financial institutions or shadow banks have limited or no prudential regulations. This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of household-side macroprudential tightening in the presence of unregulated...
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We compare the Federal Reserve's asset purchase programs with those implemented by the Bank of England and the Swedish Riksbank, and the Swiss National Bank’s reserve expansion program. We decompose government bond yields into (i) an expectations component, (ii) a global term premium and (iii)...
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This paper examines empirically the impact of financial stress on the transmission of monetary policy shocks in Canada … stress conditions, the authors examine questions such as: Do contractionary and expansionary monetary policy shocks have … symmetric effects? Do financial stress conditions play a role as a nonlinear propagator of monetary policy shocks? Does monetary …
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market frictions and financial shocks as well as standard macroeconomic shocks. We estimate the model using Canadian data … on the nature of the shock where the benefits are larger in the presence of financial shocks that have broader effects on …
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This paper applies a static model of an interest rate corridor to the Canadian data, and estimates the aggregate demand for central-bank settlement balances in the Large Value Transfer System (LVTS). The empirical specification controls for various calendar effects that have been shown to cause...
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This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policy in a DSGE model with sticky prices and non-zero trend inflation. We characterize the fiscal and monetary policies by a rule whereby a given fraction k of the government debt must be backed by the discounted value of...
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This paper develops a search-theoretic model to study the interaction between banking and monetary policy and how this interaction affects the allocation and welfare. Regarding how banking affects the welfare costs of inflation: First, we find that, with banking, inflation generates smaller...
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This paper studies the interdependence between fiscal and monetary policies, and their joint role in the determination of the price level. The government is characterized by a long-run fiscal policy rule whereby a given fraction of the outstanding debt, say , is backed by the present discounted...
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capture. Second, I show that the short run effects of money shocks in an exogenous segmentation model (such as the linear … segmentation model, the equilibrium response to money shocks is non-linear and non-monotonic. Moreover, for large money shocks …
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