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The financial market effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs
Lewis, Vivien; Roth, Markus - 2017
The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
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Effects of US Monetary Policy Shocks During Financial Crises - A Threshold Vector Autoregression Approach
Zheng, Jasmine - 2013
This paper analyzes the impact and effectiveness of conventional monetary policy during periods of low and high financial stress in the US economy. Using data from 1973Q1 to 2008Q4, the analysis is conducted by estimating a Threshold Vector Autoregression (TVAR) model to capture switching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076282
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Do SVARs with Sign Restrictions not Identify Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks?
Boeckx, Jef - 2019
A growing empirical literature has shown, based on structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) identified through sign restrictions, that unconventional monetary policies implemented after the outbreak of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) had expansionary macroeconomic effects. In a recent paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867387
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Effects of US Monetary Policy Shocks during Financial Crises ― A Threshold Vector Autoregression Approach
Fry-McKibbin, Renee - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of monetary policy during periods of low and high financial stress in the US economy using a Threshold Vector Autoregression model. There is evidence that expansionary monetary policy is effective during periods of high financial stress with larger responses having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012992677
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Do SVARs with sign restrictions not identify unconventional monetary policy shocks?
Boeckx, Jef; Dossche, Maarten; Galesi, Alessandro; … - 2019
A growing empirical literature has shown, based on structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) identified through sign restrictions, that unconventional monetary policies implemented after the outbreak of the Great Financial Crisis (GFC) had expansionary macroeconomic effects. In a recent paper,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023612
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Asymmetric macro-financial spillovers
Bluwstein, Kristina - 2017
The 2008 financial crisis has shown that financial busts can influence the real economy. However, there is less evidence to suggest that the same holds for financial booms. Using a Markov-Switching vector autoregressive model and euro area data, I show that financial booms tend to be less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011617592
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International transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policy and financial stress shocks from the euro area to Russia
Dajčman, Silvo; Kavkler, Alenka; Merzlyakov, Sergey; … - In: Journal of central banking theory and practice 11 (2022) 1, pp. 227-247
trade balance. The contractionary euro area monetary policy shock decreases Russian GDP, leads to real appreciation of the …
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Is there an information channel of monetary policy?
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - 2024
shocks and study their effects on financial variables and macro variables. The first shock resembles a conventional monetary … policy shock, and the second resembles an unconventional monetary shock. The third shock leads to an increase in interest … and uncertainty decrease, and the U.S. dollar depreciates. Therefore, this third shock combines all the characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560738
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Exchange rates and the information channel of monetary policy
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - 2020
We disentangle the effects of monetary policy announcements on real economic variables into an interest rate shock … component and a central bank information shock component. We identify both components using changes in interest rate futures and … that a contractionary interest rate shock appreciates the dollar, increases the excess bond premium, and leads to a decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301353
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The impact of monetary policy on financial markets in small open economies : more or less effective during the global financial crisis?
Pennings, Steven; Ramayandi, Arief; Hsiao Chink Tang - 2011
This paper estimates the impact of monetary policy on exchange rates and stock markets for eight small open economies: Australia, Canada, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. On average across these countries, a one percentage point surprise...
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