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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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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
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009636538
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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
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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
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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
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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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The great inflation of the 1970s
Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris - 2004
Was the high inflation of the 1970s mostly due to incomplete information about the structure of the economy (an unavoidable mistake as suggested by Orphanides, 2000)? Or, to weak reaction to expected inflation and/or excessive policy activism that led to indeterminacies (a policy mistake, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009639390
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The decline of activist stabilization policy
Orphanides, Athanasios; Williams, John C. - 2004
We develop an estimated model of the U.S. economy in which agents form expectations by continually updating their beliefs regarding the behavior of the economy and monetary policy. We explore the effects of policymakers' misperceptions of the natural rate of unemployment during the late 1960s...
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The optimal degree of discretion in monetary policy
Athey, Susan; Atkeson, Andrew; Kehoe, Patrick J. - 2004
How much discretion should the monetary authority have in setting its policy? This question is analyzed in an economy with an agreed-upon social welfare function that depends on the randomly fluctuating state of the economy. The monetary authority has private information about that state. In the...
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