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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...

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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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Prudential supervisory arrangements and financial crises : A critique of the European Commission’s Impact Assessment on the revision of the CRD

Europe Economics (London, UK) - 2009

This document was commissioned by the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (ECON). It is a quick critique, conducted over a four week period, of those sections of the European Commission’s Impact Assessment (hereafter “the IA”) on the revisions to the Capital...

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Crisis Management, Burden Sharing and Solidarity Mechanisms in the EU : A follow-up study to Financial Supervision and Crisis Management in the EU

Kern, Alexander Professor Dr.; Lord, Eatwell Professor; … - 2010

The financial crisis that began in 2007 as a liquidity crisis for banks has transformed itself into a sovereign debt … crisis that threatens the viability of the eurozone and the foundations of the European Union. In this study, we analyse some …

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Inflation persistence and robust monetary policy design

Coenen, Günter - 2003

This paper investigates the performance of optimised interest rate rules when there is uncertainty about a key determinant of the monetary transmission mechanism, namely the degree of persistence characterising the inﬂation process. The paper focuses on the euro area and utilises two variants of...

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Definition of price stability, range and point inflation targets

Castelnuovo, Efrem; Nicoletti-Altimari, Sergio; … - 2003

Announcing a quantitative objective for price developments has become a common practice in modern monetary policy making. While the specific features of such announced objectives vary across countries, a common rationale for this is to help anchoring inflation expectations. We use survey data on...

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The output composition puzzle

Angeloni, Ignazio; Kashyap, Anil K.; Mojon, Benoît; … - 2003

We revisit recent evidence on how monetary policy affects output and prices in the U.S. and in the euro area. The response patterns to a shift in monetary policy are similar in most respects, but differ noticeably as to the composition of output changes. In the euro area investment is the...

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Persistence, the transmission mechanism and robust monetary policy

Angeloni, Ignazio; Coenen, Günter; Smets, Frank - 2003

In this paper we first explore the impact of nominal and real persistence on the transmission process of various shocks in an estimated DSGE model of euro area. We then analyse its impact on optimal monetary policy and investigate the performance of various monetary policies when the policy...

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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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The natural real rate of interest in the euro area

Giammarioli, Nicola; Valla, Natacha - 2003

In this paper, we discuss the consequences of taking into account the variations of the natural real interest rate (r t *) in simple monetary policy rules. We also provide one possible model-based analysis of the level of r t * that has prevailed in the euro area since the early 1970s, and...

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