We estimate the dynamic effects of a high-frequency identified unionwide quantitative easing (QE) shock on real GDP, inflation and unemployment in all euro area countries. We document that the effects of QE are very heterogenous across countries as regards size, significance and timing,...

This paper empirically investigates the impact of U.S. monetary policy surprises on the volatility of stock market returns for euro area countries. More specifically, to extract the unanticipated component of the U.S. monetary policy, we follow the Kuttner's methodology and we use the federal...