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Central banks should not be in the business of trying to prick asset price bubbles. Bubbles generally arise out of some … bubbles and more of the third in real estate booms). Accordingly, the connection between monetary conditions and the rise of … bubbles is rather tenuous, and anything short of inducing a recession by tightening credit conditions prohibitively is …
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suitable for the task of tackling asset price bubbles. …
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suitable for the task of tackling asset price bubbles. …
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This article rejects the linkages in proposals that the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) target equity prices. The real federal funds rate (RFF) and stock prices (SP) are uncorrelated; causality tests show a positive effect of SP on RFF and a negative effect of SP on RFF. These results occur as part of...
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This article rejects the linkages in proposals that the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) target equity prices. The real federal funds rate (RFF) and stock prices (SP) are uncorrelated; causality tests show a positive effect of SP on RFF and a negative effect of SP on RFF. These results occur as part of...
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economies to similar bubbles, a bubble itself is not sufficient to cause real-side disruption. Central bankers should learn from … asset price declines and not be concerned with targeting asset prices or pricking bubbles per se …
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relationship to bubbles. My conclusion is that mistaken U.S. monetary policy, usually related to the Fed's indifference to the … value of the dollar, has repeatedly caused harmful asset bubbles in the United States and abroad. Policy is again at risk … “quantitative easing”). Regulatory policy has often been ineffective at identifying or addressing asset bubbles, especially those …
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This paper analyses the relationship between the prevailing liquidity conditions (such as measures of money, credit and interest rates) and developments in asset prices from a monetary analysis perspective. After having identified periods of sustained excess liquidity, we analyse under which...
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We study the role of monetary policy when asset-price bubbles may form due to herd behavior in investment in an asset … from households to publicly invest in the old or the new technology. The three main results of the paper are that bubbles … directly access to less information than the investors; and that the central bank can eliminate bubbles by manipulating the …
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We study the role of monetary policy when asset-price bubbles may form due to herd behavior in investment in an asset … from households to publicly invest in the old or the new technology. The three main results of the paper are that bubbles … directly access to less information than the investors; and that the central bank can eliminate bubbles by manipulating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010815962