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This paper studies the relationship between the business cycle and financial intermediation in the euro area. We establish stylized facts and study their stability during the global financial crisis and the European sovereign debt crisis. Long-term interest rates have been exceptionally high and...
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We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more effective than academic papers do. Central bank papers report larger effects of QE on output and in...
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Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining such a pattern. It is shown in this paper that this...
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hold for structural modelling frameworks where monetary policy is set according to Taylor-type rules or seeks to minimize … for both asset pricing and macroeconomic allocation under a welfare-based monetary policy conduct. Against this background …, the paper focuses on the impact of such preferences on the Ramsey approach to monetary policy within a medium-scale model …
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This paper uses a time-varying Factor Augmented VAR to investigate the evolving transmission of monetary policy and … and disaggregated prices suggest that the response of inflation, money supply and asset prices to monetary policy and … policy shocks started having a bigger impact on prices, a smaller impact on activity and began contributing more to overall …
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usefulness of ECB-Global and DCP for policy analysis, we explore the implications of the euro rivaling the US dollar as a second …, while those from euro area shocks are amplified; domestic euro area monetary policy effectiveness is hardly affected by the …
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predicting inflation at longer (3-year) horizons. -- Inflation forecasting ; leading indicators ; monetary policy ; information … content of money ; fiscal policy ; New EU Member States …
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policy can support the macroeconomic transmission of fiscal interventions. We employ a DSGE model with financial frictions … whereby the interplay of corporate, banks and sovereign solvency risk affect the transmission of fiscal policy. The output …
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We provide evidence that industries' supply curves are convex. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a model, in which capacity constraints at the plant level generate convex supply curves at the industry level. The industry's capacity utilization rate is a sufficient statistic for the...
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closer to zero. A key advantage of this approach is to capture the gradualism of the monetary policy normalization process …
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