Similar Search Results

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635957

Consumer inflation expectations in Poland

£yziak, Tomasz - 2003

Inflation expectations constitute a subject of particular contemporary interest to central banks, especially those pursuing a monetary policy based on a strategy of direct inflation targeting. Macroeconomic theory indicates that the transmission of monetary policy impulses and their impact on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635882

ECB - Working paper series

European Central Bank

The ECB Working Paper Series seeks to disseminate economic research on issues that are relevant to the various tasks and functions of the ECB. The Series invites submissions of research work by ECB staff and visitors. Papers by researchers not affiliated with the ECB may also be considered for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635880

The credibility of the monetary policy "free lunch"

Yetman, James - 2003

Price level targeting has been proposed as an alternative to inﬂation targeting that may confer beneﬁts if a central bank sets policy under discretion, even if societyu0092s loss function is speciﬁed in terms of inﬂation (instead of price level) volatility. This paper demonstrates the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635890

Indeterminacy of rational expectations equilibria in sequential financial markets

Donati, Paola - 2003

We provide a general characterization of the structure of rational expectations equilibria of any degree of revelation for pure exchange, sequential economies, with deffinitely many states of private information, an incomplete financial market and nominal assets. We estimate the dimension of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635915

Interest rate reaction functions and the Taylor rule in the euro area

Gerlach-Kristen, Petra - 2003

Traditional Taylor rules, which are estimated using a level specification linking the short-term interest rate to inflation and the output gap, are unstable when estimated on euro area data and forecast poorly out of sample. We present an alternative reaction function which takes the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635919

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

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

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636518

Option-implied asymmetries in bond market expectations around monetary policy actions of the ECB

Vähämaa, Sami - 2004

This paper uses data on German government bond futures options to examine the behaviour of market expectations around monetary policy actions of the European Central Bank (ECB). In particular, this paper focuses on the asymmetries in bond market expectations, as measured by the skewness of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636538

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last