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How does the ECB allot liquidity in its weekly main refinancing operations?

Ejerskov, Steen; Moss, Clara Martin; Stracca, Livio - 2003

This paper provides a simple weekly model of the regular supply of liquidity in the euro area, with a view to … understanding the functioning of the euro area money market. The main result of the analysis is that liquidity has normally been … deviations of the overnight rate from the main refinancing rate. Moreover the paper finds that liquidity has affected the …

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Optimal allotment policy in the Eurosystem's main refinancing operations

Ewerhart, Christian; Cassola, Nuno; Ejerskov, Steen; … - 2003

" benchmark allotment rule, with the effect of not alleviating a temporary liquidity shortage in the banking system. This is … the present paper, we show that when the monetary authority cares for both liquidity and interest rate conditions, the … threshold level for the accumulated aggregate liquidity position in the banking system prior to the last operation in a given …

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Investors with too many options?

Dorn, Daniel - 2010

During the last decade, markets for covered warrants (bank-issued options) have flourished in Europe and Asia. In these markets, investors often face a choice between many instruments that differ only slightly from each other. Based on retail trades in call options on the German DAX index, this...

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The ECB's New Multi-Country Model for the euro area

Dieppe, Alistair; González Pandiella, Alberto; Hall, … - 2011

Rational expectations has been the dominant way to model expectations, but the literature has quickly moved to a more realistic assumption of boundedly rational learning where agents are assumed to use only a limited set of information to form their expectations. A standard assumption is that...

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Business cycle dynamics under rational inattention

Maćkowiak, Bartosz; Wiederholt, Mirko - 2011

We develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with rational inattention by households and firms. Consumption responds slowly to interest rate changes because households decide to pay little attention to the real interest rate. Prices respond quickly to some shocks and slowly to other...

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Monetary policy transmission in the euro area

Angeloni, Ignazio; Ehrmann, Michael - 2003

We examine the euro area monetary policy transmission process using post-1999 data, with two main questions in mind: has it changed after u0096 and because of u0096 EMU and, if so, is it becoming homogeneous across countries. Given the data limitations, we concentrate on three blocks of...

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Liquidity, information, and the overnight rate

Ewerhart, Christian; Cassola, Nuno; Ejerskov, Steen; … - 2004

unsophisticated bank just trades to compensate its liquidity imbalance, while a sophisticated bank will exploit its private … information about the liquidity situation in the market. It is shown that with positive probability, the liquidity effect … (Hamilton, 1997) is reversed, i.e., a liquidity drainage from the banking system may generate an overall decrease in the market …

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Horizontal and vertical integration and securities trading and settlement

Tapking, Jens; Yang, Jing - 2004

This paper addresses a very European issue, the consolidation of securities trading and settlement infrastructures. In a two-country model, we analyze welfare implications of different types of consolidation. We find that horizontal integration of settlement systems is better than vertical...

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Mergers and acquisitions and bank performance in Europe

Altunbas, Yener - Marqués-Ibáñez, David - 2004

An unprecedented process of financial consolidation has taken place in the European Union over the past decade. Building on earlier US evidence, we examine the impact of strategic similarities between bidders and targets on post-merger financial performance. We find that, on average, bank...

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Financial market integration and loan competition

Kaas, Leo - 2004

The paper analyzes how the removal of barriers to entry in banking affect loan competition, bank stability and economic welfare. We consider a model of spatial loan competition where a market that is served by less efficient banks is opened to entry by banks that are more efficient in screening...

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