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In 2010, in response to an ever-worsening fiscal crisis, the ECB began purchasing sovereign debt from troubled euro-area countries through its Securities Market Programme (SMP). This program was designed to improve market functioning and restore the monetary transmission mechanism within the...
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The Great Recession and the subsequent European crisis may have long-lasting effects on aggregate demand, aggregate supply and, hence, on macroeconomic performance over the medium and long run. Besides the fact that financial crises last longer and are succeeded by slower recoveries, and apart...
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Structural models are a powerful tool for business cycle and monetary policy analysis because they are invariant to either policy changes or external shocks. In this paper, we derive a Sidrauski-type model in which both the demand and supply side are structural in the sense that the behavioral...
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This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
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This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535260
supposed drivers of imbalances in the build-up to the Great Recession: unequal developments in investment, competitiveness and …
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aggregate private consumption. We find the effects to be economically relevant, especially when the lower bound is binding …
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-44 year-old winning; (iii) losses were quite uniform across consumption quantiles because rigid rents served as a hedge for …
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The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
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The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability …. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank … impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099559