We explore the transmission of the ECB's public sector asset purchase programme (PSPP) via the portfolio rebalancing of investment funds and their investors. Evidence for this channel would validate several theoretical propositions and provide insights into market perceptions of intervention...

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...

Policymakers imposed constraints on public life in order to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, fiscal and monetary policy implemented a large range of of expansionary measures to limit the economic consequences of the pandemic and stimulate the recovery. In this paper, we assess...