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House-purchasing decisions and the possibility of existing homeowners to tap into their housing equity depend decisively on prevailing loan-to-value (LTV) ratios in mortgage markets with borrowing constrained households. Utilizing a smooth transition local projection (STLP) approach, I show that...
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We study how shocks to corporate leverage alter the macroeconomic transmission of monetary policy. We identify leverage shocks as idiosyncratic firm-level disturbances that are aggregated up to a size-weighted country-level average to generate a Granular Instrumental Variable (Gabaix and Koijen,...
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Central banks have usually employed short-term rates as the main instrument of monetary policy. In the last decades, however, forward guidance has also become a central tool for monetary policy. In an innovative way this paper combines two sources of extraneous information - high frequency...
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In this paper we investigate the possible effects of fiscal tightening in Hungary from two perspectives. First, simulations in an estimated neo-Keynesian model are used to characterise the effects of different scenarios for fiscal consolidations. We show that the composition of fiscal shocks is...
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In this paper, we analyze how lack of credibility and transparency of monetary and fiscal policies undermines the effectiveness of macroeconomic policies to isolate the economy from commodity price fluctuations. We develop a general equilibrium model for a commodity-exporting economy where macro...
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This paper documents firm-level evidence on the asymmetric effects of monetary policy in the US. Focusing on firm-level data from 1980q3 to 2016q2, I find that monetary contractions triple the effects of monetary expansions on firms’ employment, investment rate, and sales. Furthermore, I...
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Since the Great Recession, the main evolution in monetary policy has been its attempts to affect the medium and the long-term interest rates with instruments other than the policy rate. Consequently, measuring the stance of monetary policy by a single interest rate becomes problematic. This...
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positive policy rate shock positively for all periods and have a hump shape for government debt security yields as well as for … all interest rates to the policy shock increase; (iii) the responses to the policy shock of credit interest rates with …
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This paper evaluates the macroeconomic effects of the Eurosystem's expanded Asset Purchase Programme (APP) under alternative strategies as regards (i) the unwinding of asset positions accumulated under the APP and (ii) communication of current and future paths of the policy rate (forward...
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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 …
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