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To what extent are US and Euro Area (EA) inflation expectations determined by foreign shocks? How do transmissions change during the great recession and European sovereign debt crisis? We address these questions with a flexible structural VAR model of weekly financial markets’ inflation...
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We quantify spillovers of inflation expectations between the United States (US) and Euro Area (EA) based on break-even inflation (BEI) rates. In contrast to previous studies, we model US and EA BEI rates jointly in a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model. The SVAR approach allows to...
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Exploiting the heteroscedasticity of the changes in short-term and long-term interest rates and exchange rates around the FOMC announcement, we identify three structural monetary policy shocks. We eliminate the predictable part of the shocks and study their effects on financial variables and...
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A growing literature stresses the importance of the “global financial cycle”, a common global movement in asset prices and credit conditions, for emerging market economies (EMEs). It is argued that one of the key drivers of this global cycle is monetary policy in the U.S., which is...
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-border financial spillover channels have not become a standard element of structural monetary models. Against this background, we … hypothesise that New Keynesian DSGE models that do not feature powerful financial spillover channels confound the effects of … models that do not account for powerful financial spillover channels are contaminated by a common global component; the …
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We study the impact of the US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error-correction model (GVECM) and conducting counterfactual analyses. We focus on the effects of reductions in the US term and corporate spreads. First, US QE measures...
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We study the impact of US quantitative easing (QE) on both the emerging and advanced economies, estimating a global vector error correction model (GVECM). We focus on the effects of reductions in the US term and corporate spreads. The estimated effects of QE are sizeable and vary across...
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This study investigates the international spillover effects of US unconventional monetary policy (UMP) - frequently … purchases of private sector securities that lower the US mortgage spread exert stronger and more significant spillover effects …
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This paper studies the effects of unconventional monetary policies in the major advanced economies. We first examine the cross-border financial market impact of central bank announcements of asset purchase programmes based on event studies. We find marked effects, as expansionary balance sheet...
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-border financial spillover channels have not become a standard element of structural monetary models. Against this background, we … hypothesise that New Keynesian DSGE models that do not feature powerful financial spillover channels confound the effects of … models that do not account for powerful financial spillover channels are contaminated by a common global component; the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664579