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In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new house and nondurables prices. These findings survive three identification strategies and...
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This paper analyzes how monetary policy responds to exchange rate movements in open economies, paying particular attention to the two-way interaction between monetary policy and exchange rate movements. We address this issue using a structural VAR model that is identified using a combination of...
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dependence of emerging Asia on external demand. This paper analyses, using an update of the Asian International Input-Output (AIO … linkages. According to the results, we do not find evidence of the decoupling of emerging Asia from the rest of the world. On … indicates that emerging Asia’s dependence on exports is only about one-third of its GDP, i.e. well below the 50% exposure …
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Distinguishing pure supply effects from other determinants of price and quantity in the market for loans is a notoriously difficult problem. Using German data, we employ Bayesian vector autoregressive models with sign restrictions on the impulse response functions in order to enquire the role of...
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We study how credit supply shocks in the US, the euro area and Japan are transmitted to other economies. We use the … effect of reducing credit supply to the private sector. We find that negative US credit supply shocks have stronger negative … effects on domestic and foreign GDP, compared to credit supply shocks from the euro area and Japan. Domestic and foreign …
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Against the background of the rapid integration of emerging Asia into the global economy, this paper investigates the … role of domestic and external factors in driving individual emerging economies in Asia. We estimate VAR models for ten …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the role of money in monetary policy by analyzing the information content of money in forecasting euro-area inflation. We compare the predictive performance within and among various classes of structural and empirical models in a consistent framework using...
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This paper investigates whether output and inflation respond asymmetrically to credit shocks in the euro area. The … effects related to credit conditions in the economy. Consistent with this finding, the impulse responses show some signs of …
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imbalances, the United States and emerging Asia, using sign restrictions that are compatible with standard New Keynesian and Real … “liquidity glut” may have been a more important driver of real and financial imbalances in the US and emerging Asia than a …
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can be helpful in this context. In this paper, I use business survey data to inform an SVAR of aggregate supply, demand …
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