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It is well known that a tightening or easing of the United States' monetary policy affects financial markets in emerging economies. This paper argues that uncertainty about future monetary policy is a separate transmission channel. We focus on the taper tantrum episode in 2013, a period with an...
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With the Federal Funds rate approaching the zero lower bound, the U.S. Federal Reserve adopted a range of unconventional monetary policy measures known as Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantifying the impact QE has on the real economy, however, is not straightforward as standard tools such as VAR...
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With the Federal Funds rate approaching the zero lower bound, the U.S. Federal Reserve adopted a range of unconventional monetary policy measures known as Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantifying the impact QE has on the real economy, however, is not straightforward as standard tools such as VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482445
Policymakers imposed constraints on public life in order to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, fiscal and monetary policy implemented a large range of of expansionary measures to limit the economic consequences of the pandemic and stimulate the recovery. In this paper, we assess...
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In order to fight the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, monetary and fiscal policy announced a large variety of support packages which are often unprecedented in size. In this paper, we provide an empirical analysis of the responses of European financial markets to these policy...
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monetary policy news shock based on a VAR model. A monetary news shock is equivalent to new information about the Fed's future … monetary policy becoming available today. One example of a monetary news shock is a Forward Guidance announcement, where the … shocks. We estimate the response of the euro area to an expected future policy tightening of the Fed. The U.S. news shock …
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monetary policy news shock based on a VAR model. A monetary news shock is equivalent to new information about the Fed's future … monetary policy becoming available today. One example of a monetary news shock is a forward guidance announcement, where the … shocks. We estimate the response of the euro area to an expected future policy tightening of the Fed. The U.S. news shock …
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responses to identify a belief shock. The results show that shocks to tapering beliefs have profound effects on interest rates …
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-term interest rates respond less strongly to a monetary policy shock if ECB-Bundesbank communication is more cacophonous than on …
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leads to a significantly smaller increase in long-term bond yields if policy uncertainty is high at the time of the shock … are robust to the measurement of monetary policy uncertainty and the definition of the monetary policy shock. We argue … policy uncertainty leads to opposite effects with term premia increasing even more after a policy shock. …
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