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With the Federal Funds rate approaching the zero lower bound, the U.S. Federal Reserve adopted a range of unconventional monetary policy measures known as Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantifying the impact QE has on the real economy, however, is not straightforward as standard tools such as VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338158
This paper investigates within a SVAR framework the effects of anticipated monetary policy in the euro area. Building on a procedure recently proposed by Cochrane yielding the response of output to an anticipated monetary policy impulse, we show that in the past twenty years anticipated monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538850
With the Federal Funds rate approaching the zero lower bound, the U.S. Federal Reserve adopted a range of unconventional monetary policy measures known as Quantitative Easing (QE). Quantifying the impact QE has on the real economy, however, is not straightforward as standard tools such as VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010482445
This paper investigates within a SVAR framework the effects of anticipated monetary policy in the euro area. Building on a procedure recently proposed by Cochrane which yields the response of output to an anticipated monetary policy impulse, we show that in the past twenty years anticipated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011476356
We explore the effects of the ECB's unconventional monetary policy on the banks' sovereign debt portfolios. In particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836323
We explore the effects of the ECB's unconventional monetary policy on the banks' sovereign debt portfolios. In particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy shocks,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838235
these surprises reflect either a single unconventional 'monetary shock' or, as recently suggested, jointly an unconventional … monetary shock and a central bank 'information shock'. In this paper we show that monetary policy in the euro area after 2008 … is best characterized by three shocks, not two. Besides the unconventional monetary shock and the information shock, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621320
We assess the macroeconomic impact of pandemic-related monetary policy measures of the ECB. Conditioning on counterfactual interest rate paths that would have materialised in the absence of the policies, the macroeconomic effects are measured using structural vector autoregressions. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622376
sign restrictions. The results reveal that both a policy interest rate shock and a balance sheet shock have a positive and … temporary impact on house prices in Finland, with the response to a balance sheet shock being smaller and fading out faster. The … peak of the effect of a policy rate shock on house prices in Finland arrives faster than in the whole euro area but the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296184
We explore the effects of the ECB’s unconventional monetary policy on the banks’ sovereign debt portfolios. In particular, using panel vector autoregressive (VAR) models we analyze whether banks increased their domestic government bond holdings in response to non-standard monetary policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012194625