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The excess liquidity in the euro area is a product of a long period of quantitative easing. It changed the operational framework of the European Central Bank (ECB)'s monetary policy from the scarce reserves system (SRS) to the abundant reserves system (ARS). To eliminate excess liquidity and...
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-causes inflation in the euro area. Based on data from 1970 to 2006 and forecasting horizons of up to 12 quarters, there is surprisingly … power of money growth for inflation is substantially lower in more recent sample periods compared to the 1970s and 1980s …. This cautions against using money-based inflation models anchored in very long samples for policy advice. …
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Central banks have had an important role in maintaining financial stability through their lender of last resort role. As lender of last resort, the central bank is given enormous power which is normally tempered by a variety of limits. In the most recent crises in both the United States and euro...
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Der Beitrag behandelt die Auswirkungen der expansiven Geldpolitik auf das Sparen und die Sparkultur. Dem Konstrukt der sogenannten Sparschwemme oder "savings glut" als Erklärungsansatz niedriger Zinsen wird eine Absage erteilt. Gerade in Deutschland gibt es für das Sparen nach wie vor gute...
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bound on nominal interest rates. As inflation and economic activity decline, policy should ease more aggressively than it … would in the absence of the lower bound. As activity recovers and inflation picks up, the central bank should act to keep …
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This paper investigates the implications of monetary policy rules during the surge and subsequent decline of inflation … or domestic inflation data called for raising interest rates in 2021 and well ahead of the rate increases implemented by …
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The European Central Bank (ECB) recently became engaged in macro-prudential policies and the micro-prudential supervision of the largest Euro area banks. These new tasks should help complete financial integration, and make the Euro area more resilient to financial instability risks. However, the...
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The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), which started operating in November 2014, is an essential step towards restoring banks to health and rebuilding trust in the banking system. The ECB is today...
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We propose a novel framework to analyze how policy-makers can manage risks to the median projection and risks specific to the tail of gross domestic product (GDP) growth. By combining a quantile regression of GDP growth with a vector autoregression, we show that monetary and macroprudential...
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This paper argues that the loose monetary policy of two of the world's most important financial institutions-the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of 2008 - 09. Unusually low interest rates in 2001 - 05...
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