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Zero lower bound
Coenen, Günter - 2003
such as the shortterm nominal interest rate, annual inflation and output. …
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Exchange rates and fundamentals
Engel, Charles; West, Kenneth David - 2003
supplies, outputs, inflation rates and interest rates. Nonetheless, it has been well documented that such variables little help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635953
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Maintaining price stability under free-floating
Detken, Carsten; Gaspar, Vítor - 2003
The behaviour of the exchange rate under a floating exchange rate regime for a small open economy with perfect capital mobility may appear like a managed float or even a firmer peg. We present a canonical new neo-classical synthesis open economy model where the central bank follows a strategy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635960
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Volatility of interest rates in the euro area
Cassola, Nuno; Morana, Claudio - 2003
This paper estimates the factors underlying the volatility of the euro overnight interest rate and its transmission along the euro area money market yield curve. A new multivariate unobserved components model is proposed allowing for both long-memory and stationary cyclical dynamics. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635972
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Describing the Fed's conduct with Taylor rules
Castelnuovo, Efrem - 2003
In this paper we estimate simple Taylor rules paying particular attention to interest rate smoothing. Following English, Nelson, and Sack (2002), we employ a model in first differences to gain some insights into the presence and signifcance of the degree of partial adjustment as opposed to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635982
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Price stability and monetary policy effectiveness when nominal interest rates are bounded at zero
Coenen, Günter; Orphanides, Athanasios; Wieland, Volker - 2003
target inflation rates as low as 2 percent. However, the effects of the constraint are non-linear with respect to the inflation … percent. The variability of output increases significantly and that of inflation also rises somewhat. Also, we show that the … increasingly short of potential with lower inflation targets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635983
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Spain's external deficit: how is it financed?
Cabrero, Alberto; Maza, Luis Angel; Yaniz, Javier - 2007
In 2006 the external net borrowing requirement of the Spanish economy was almost 8% of GDP, after having been in balance between 1993 and 1998. This increased borrowing requirement is the financial mirror image of a growth model, in which corporate and households' investments are generating an...
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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
One feature of the global economy in recent years has been the increasing number and importance of new investment funds (private equity (PE), hedge funds (HFs), and sovereign wealth funds (SWFs)), which are sometimes referred to as alternative investment funds (AIFs). This increase has...
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The impact of investment funds on restructuring practices and employment levels : Company case studies
Gospel, Howard; Haves, Jakob; Pendleton, Andrew - 2010
This report examines whether investment funds – in particular, private equity, hedge funds and sovereign wealth funds – help to revive underperforming companies and thereby contribute to employment growth or whether, on the contrary, they strive to maximise financial returns at the expense...
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Consumer vulnerability across key markets in the European Union : Final report
Austgulen, Marthe H. (contributor) - London Economics; VVA Consulting; Ipsos Mori consortium - 2016
The study examines the incidence of vulnerability across the EU28 and Iceland and Norway, and the factors explaining any observed vulnerability. The study uses a range of information sources (literature review, stakeholder interviews, consumer survey and consumer experiments in five countries)...
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