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States, Banks and the Financing of the Economy: Monetary Policy and Regulatory Perspectives
Balling, Morten; Jackson, Patricia; Gnan, Ernest; … - 2013
On 5-6 September 2012 SUERF held its 30th Colloquium “States, Banks, and the Financing of the Economy” at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. The papers included in this SUERF Study are based on contributions to the Colloquium. All the papers in this publication discuss from different...
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Connected Lending of Last Resort
Mitchener, Kris James; Monnet, Eric - 2023
Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...
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Social Trust and Central-Bank Independence
Berggren, Niclas; Daunfeldt, Sven-Olof; Hellström, Jörgen - 2012
Central banks have been made more independent in many countries. A common rationale has been the existence of a credibility (or lack-of-trust) problem for monetary policy. This indicates a possible and until now unexplored link between social trust and central-bank independence. Our empirical...
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Does Government Ideology Matter in Monetary Policy? – A Panel Data Analysis for OECD Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Potrafke, Niklas - 2009
This paper examines the effect of government ideology on monetary policy in a quarterly data set of 15 OECD countries in the period 1980.1-2005.4. Our Taylor-rule specification focuses on the interactions of a new time-variant indicator for central bank independence and government ideology. The...
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The role of political institutions for the effectiveness of central bank independence
Hielscher, Kai; Markwardt, Gunther - 2011
This paper empirically studies the impact of the quality of political institutions on the link between central bank independence and inflation. Making use of data on the evolution of central bank independence over time and controlling for possible nonlinearities, we employ interaction models to...
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The Success of Currency Reforms to End Great Inflations: An Empirical Analysis of 34 High Inflations
Bernholz, Peter; Kugler, Peter - 2007
The estimation of an ordered probit model for currency reforms trying to end 31 hyperinflations and three big inflations of the 20th century shows that the introduction of an independent central bank and the adoption of a credibly fixed exchange rate are crucial for the success of a currency...
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Governing the governors: A clinical study of central banks
Frisell, Lars; Roszbach, Kasper; Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2008
Recent research on central bank governance has focused mainly on their monetary policy task. As the sub-prime loan market turmoil reminded us - central banks play a crucial role in financial markets not only in setting monetary policy, but also in ensuring their soundness and stability. In this...
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International monetary policy spillovers in an asymmetric world monetary system - The United States and China
Spantig, Kristina - 2012
is capital controls which enable the periphery countries, in particular China, to maintain a certain degree of monetary …
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Die Internationalisierung des chinesischen Renminbi: eine Chance für China
Stier, Olaf; Bernoth, Kerstin; Fisher, Alexander - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 20, pp. 10-15
China hat erste Schritte unternommen, die auf eine Internationalisierung des Renminbi hindeuten. So hat das Land … zu binden, sollte China die Bandbreite für den Handel mit dem Renminbi allmählich vergrößern. Eine unabhängige … Geldpolitik und ein freier Devisenhandel sind zwei der Eckpfeiler eines modernen Finanzwesens. Die Liberalisierung der …
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Monetary policy, asset prices and consumption in China
Koivu, Tuuli - 2010
This paper studies the wealth channel in China. Using the structural vector autoregression method, we find that a … loosening of China’s monetary policy indeed leads to higher asset prices, which in turn are linked to household consumption …. However, the importance of the wealth channel as a part of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in China is still …
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