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combination of inflation targeting and monetary targeting. Well conceived monetary targeting with a commitment to a long-run money … growth rate corresponding to inflation target could reinforce the credibility of central bank announcements and the role of … inflation target as strong and credible nominal anchor for private inflation expectations. However, an inflation …
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by using the BoE’s own inflation projections in our estimations. Also, we develop a novel measure of the output gap to … that feature in the Inflation Report. Our study provides some new insights into the BoE’s monetary policy behaviour. We … conditions and relatively more to inflation projections when the 2008-9 Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession period is …
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This paper outlines important lessons for monetary policy. In particular, the role of inflation targeting, which was … financial stability. Finally, this paper makes a case against increasing the central banks' inflation target. -- Inflation …
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On 4 March 2011, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and the National Bank of Poland jointly organised a conference on the theme of: "Monetary Policy after the Crisis". Following a call for papers with a large number of submissions, the scientific committee selected 9 papers, which...
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public finances. We show that when the ECB misses its inflation target this has large heterogeneous fiscal consequences for … missing their inflation targets. They are also sizeable …
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In this paper, we survey the nascent literature on the transmission of negative policy rates. We discuss the theory of how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the growing evidence that negative policy rates are...
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This paper employs a structural VAR framework with sign restrictions to estimate the effects of unconventional monetary policies of the European Central Bank since the Global Financial Crisis, mainly in their effectiveness towards bank lending. Using a variable for newly issued credit instead of...
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After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro area slowed down dramatically, bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the European Central Bank (ECB) quantitative easing programme in...
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After the global financial crisis and during the European sovereign debt crisis, bank lending to companies in the euro area slowed down dramatically bringing the economy close to a credit crunch. It was only after the start of the ECB’s quantitative easing programme in early 2015 that bank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977350
We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by...
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