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The paper compares the monetary policy in Croatia during two crises: the great recession and the COVID pandemic. The … great recession was a global financial shock that strongly affected Croatia. During the great recession, the central bank … policies to strengthen the quality and inclusiveness of monetary policy in Croatia. …
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In the aftermath of the financial crisis the Fed pursued a “near zero” overnight interest floor and initiatives to manipulate the size and composition of central bank assets. Bernanke referred to this policy as “credit easing.” I overview the succession of unconventional Fed measures...
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The economics literature lacks articles that provide a broad roadmap-let alone a logical explanation-of the new set of Federal Reserve policy tools that were created to counter the COVID-19 recession. This study provides an overview of the motivation for these new credit-easing programs-namely...
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Using responses of credit default swap indexes to ECB monetary policy announcements, we isolate a novel credit policy component of monetary policy surprises. We examine how such unconventional monetary policy surprises affect investor perceptions of credit risk and the functioning of primary...
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In a January 2009 lecture on the financial crisis, Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke advocated a new Fed policy of credit easing, defined as a combination of lending to financial institutions, providing liquidity directly to key credit markets, and buying of long term securities. We show that...
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This paper investigates how conventional and unconventional monetary policies announcements affect European banking indexes returns through an event-study analysis. We use data of 11 European banking indexes for the periods 1999-2015. We examine the state dependency of such effects and focus on...
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Using confidential loan officer survey data on lending standards and internal risk ratings on loans, we document an effect of large-scale asset purchase programs (LSAPs) on lending standards and risk-taking. We exploit cross-sectional variation in banks? holdings of mortgage-backed securities to...
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The foreign exchange reserves of the Czech National Bank (CNB) increased roughly three and a half times to EUR 124.6 billion while the exchange rate commitment was in place between November 2013 and April 2017. This unprecedented growth has led the CNB to review how the reserves are managed....
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already implemented integrated "statistical" and supervisory reporting requirements at a granular level. Croatia is one of … these countries. Moreover, Croatia has been able to produce a local "AnaCredit" system on a loan-by-loan basis for legal …, described and explained, and where examples and the methodologies used are provided. In Croatia, the CNB Banks' Integrated …
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