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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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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 provided by the ECB in a neutral and smooth manner, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635957
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Liquidity, information, and the overnight rate
Ewerhart, Christian; Cassola, Nuno; Ejerskov, Steen; … - 2004
We model the interbank market for overnight credit with heterogeneous banks and asymmetric information. An …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639432
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The impact of supply constraints on bank lending in the euro area
Hempell, Hannah Sabine; Sørensen, Christoffer Kok - 2010
Aggregate loan development typically hinges on a combination of factors that impact simultaneously on the demand and the supply side of bank lending. The financial turmoil starting in mid-2007 had detrimental consequences for banks’ balance-sheets, cost of funds and profitability, thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640278
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The Euro overnight interbank market and ECB's liquidity management policy during tranquil and turbulent times
Cassola, Nuno; Huetl, Michael - 2010
We analyze the impact of the recent financial market crisis on the Euro Overnight Index Average (EONIA) and interbank market trading and assess the effectiveness of the ECB liquidity policy between 07/2007 - 08/2008. We extend the model of [QM06] by (i) incorporating the microstructure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640293
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Bank heterogeneity and monetary policy transmission
Brissimis, Sophocles N.; Delis, Manthos D. - 2010
Heterogeneity in the response of banks to a change in monetary policy is an important element in the transmission of this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal factors influencing banks’ reaction in terms of lending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640307
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Financial factors in economic fluctuations
Christiano, Lawrence; Motto, Roberto; Rostagno, Massimo - 2010
We augment a standard monetary DSGE model to include a banking sector and financial markets. We fit the model to Euro Area and US data. We find that agency problems in financial contracts, liquidity constraints facing banks and shocks that alter the perception of market risk and hit financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640348
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empirical evidence for credit and output growth
Bondt, Gabe de; Maddaloni, Angela; Peydró, José-Luis; … - 2010
This study examines empirically the information content of the euro area Bank Lending Survey for aggregate credit and … leading indicator for euro area bank credit and real GDP growth. Notwithstanding the short history of the survey, the findings … also suggest that price as well as non-price conditions and terms of credit standards do matter for credit and business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640399
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Do bank loans and credit standards have an effect on output?
Cappiello, Lorenzo; Kadareja, Arjan; Sørensen, … - 2010
contrast to recent findings for the US, we find that in the euro area changes in the supply of credit, both in terms of volumes … and in terms of credit standards applied on loans to enterprises, have significant effects on real economic activity. This … highlights the importance of the monitoring of credit developments in the toolkit of monetary policy and underpins the reasoning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009640409
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009635885