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The Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the Euro Area : Has It Changed with the EMU? A VAR Approach, with Fiscal Policy and Financial Stress Considerations
Afonso, António - 2014
We study whether the adoption of the Euro and a single monetary policy have brought about a change in the monetary transmission mechanism and between the interactions of monetary policy, fiscal policy and financial stress in the Euro area. We find that the stylized facts of monetary transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050644
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Unconventional monetary policy in the euro area : impacts on loans, employment, and investment
Afonso, António; Pereira, Francisco Gomes - 2022
Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy on a micro panel at the bank and firm level, we study the transmission effectiveness of ECB’s large-scale asset purchasing programs programs (i.e. APP and PEPP) in the Euro area. Our findings show: first, balance sheet composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888479
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Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Euro Area. Impacts on Loans, Employment, and Investment
Afonso, António; Gomes Pereira, Francisco - 2022
Using a difference-in-differences identification strategy on a micro panel at the bank and firm level, we study the transmission effectiveness of ECB’s large-scale asset purchasing programs programs (i.e. APP and PEPP) in the Euro area. Our findings show: first, balance sheet composition of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296738
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Bank’s risk-taking channel of monetary policy and TLTRO : evidence from the eurozone
Afonso, António; Ferreira, Jorge Braga - 2024
(TLTRO) on banks’ risk, given by their distance to default (DtD). The study aims to determine if the liquidity from TLTROs … influences banks’ risk-taking behaviour. For the period from 2012:Q1 to 2018:Q4, covering 90 listed banks from 16 Eurozone … in TLTRO experienced a positive effect on their default risk, indicating that they may have used liquidity to strengthen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533785
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The Effects of Monetary Policy Surprises and Fiscal Sustainability Regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn’s (1998) approach through Schlicht’s (2003)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346445
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The Effects of Monetary Policy Surprises and Fiscal Sustainability Regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn’s (1998) approach through Schlicht’s (2003)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346577
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Monetary policy surprise shocks under different fiscal regimes : a panel analysis of the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary policy surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal stances in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4 for a panel of the 19 countries of the Euro Area. Applying local projection methodology, we find that the effect of monetary shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336399
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The effects of monetary policy surprises and fiscal sustainability regimes in the Euro Area
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Ionta, Serena - 2023
We study the effect of monetary surprise shocks on real output and the price level, conditioned on different fiscal sustainability regimes in the period 2001Q4-2021Q4. First, we estimate time-varying fiscal sustainability coefficients based on Bohn's (1998) approach through Schlicht's (2003)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313459
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Quantitative Easing and Sovereign Yield Spreads : Euro-Area Time-Varying Evidence
Afonso, António - 2017
We assess the determinants of sovereign bond yield spreads in the period 1999-2016, considering non-conventional monetary policy measures in the Euro area. We use a 2-step approach: i) confirm (by means of model selection methods) and estimate (by means of panel techniques) the determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941802
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Effects of Euro Area Monetary Policy on Institutional Sectors : The Case of Portugal
Afonso, António - 2017
We study the effects of the euro area monetary policy on the institutional sectors in Portugal during the period 2000:4 2015:4. Our results show that the single monetary policy affected some variables that are proxies for the funding of each institutional sector of the economy: general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951580