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Among the harmful effects of inflation, the negative consequences of inflation volatility are of particular concern … inflation volatility. Major results are robust for unconditional and conditional inflation volatility, the latter derived from … country-specific GARCH models, and across different data requencies, time periods and econometric methodologies. From a policy …
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We lay out an empirical and a theoretical model to analyze the effects of non-fundamental exchange rate volatility on … economic activity and welfare. In the first part of the paper, the GARCH-SVARmodel is applied to measure empirically the effect … of the conditional exogenous exchange rate volatility on the conditional mean of the endogenous variables in our open …
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This paper estimates the factors underlying the volatility of the euro overnight interest rate and its transmission …'s operational framework for monetary policy implementation. Strong persistence is detected in all log-volatility processes and and …. the second factor explains the transmission of volatility along the money market yield curve. We find evidence that most …
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Within a two-step GARCH framework we explore the linkages between equity returns of ten sectors in the euro area, the … United States and Japan, respectively. Our estimation framework allows a distinction to be made between spillover effects …
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Over the past decades, cross-border financial flows have increased in importance and have in many occasions exceeded the underlying current account positions. This phenomenon has been accompanied by an increase in the volume of international equity transactions that accentuate the role of...
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Four years after the introduction of the euro, this paper provides an overview of the current structure and integration of the euro area financial systems and related policy initiatives. We first compare the euro area financial structure with that of the United States and Japan. Using new and...
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This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed-country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions: (i) both the foreign and domestic investor populations contain investors of different sophistication, and (ii) investor...
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-hype and different volatility regimes. This contrasts with e.g. Rouwenhorst (1999), who finds, based on a different methodology …
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This paper employs stochastic simulations of a small structural rational expectations model to investigate the consequences of the zero bound on nominal interest rates. We find that if the economy is subject to stochastic shocks similar in magnitude to those experienced in the U.S. over the...
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