This paper analyzes the response of the European stock markets to the monetary policy shocks by the European Central Bank using the heteroskedasticity based approach of Rigobon (2003). We find that monetary policy tightening has a heterogeneous impact on the Euro Area sectors on the day the...

This paper analyzes the response of the European stock markets to the monetary policy shocks by the European Central Bank using the heteroskedasticity based approach of Rigobon (2003). We find that monetary policy tightening has a heterogeneous impact on the Euro Area sectors on the day the...

As the coronavirus pandemic spread across the globe in early 2020, the European Central Bank as well as national governments in the euro area enacted or announced numerous economic policy measures to counteract the severe economic consequences of the resulting lockdowns. In this paper, the...

In the past five years, the inflation in the euro area has been well below the European Central Bank’s (ECB) aimed inflation rate of close to but below two percent for achieving its objective of price stabilization in the medium term. The present analysis shows that expectations of low...

This paper investigates the evolution of inflation dynamics in the five largest ASEAN countries between 1997 and 2017. To account for changes in the monetary policy frameworks since the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC), the analysis is based on country-specific Phillips curves allowing for...

To cushion the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic, central banks havetaken far-reaching monetary policy measures. The US Federal Reserve has loweredits interest rates and, like the European Central Bank, has expanded its bond pur-chase programs. However, it is questionable whether...

Um die Auswirkungen der Corona-Krise abzufedern, haben die Zentralbanken weitreichende geldpolitische Maßnahmen ergriffen. Die US-amerikanische Federal Reserve hat ihre Zinsen gesenkt und ebenso wie die Europäische Zentralbank ihre Anleihekaufprogramme ausgeweitet. Fraglich ist, ob diese...

Geldpolitik; geldpolitischer Transmissionsmechanismus; Finanzmärkte und die Makroökonomie; Finanz-Akzelerator; Inflationsdynamiken; Phillips-Kurve; Inflationserwartungen; nonlinear unobserved component model; structural TVP-VAR; Große Rezession