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rates in Turkey for the inflation-targeting period. Empirical evidence suggests that (i) all interest rates respond to a …
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This study attempts to identify uncertainty in the long-term rate of interest based on the controversial interest rate …-form GARCH-in-mean model assigned to six globally leading financial markets. The obtained results support Keynes's theory - the … macroeconomic variables without interest uncertainty are thus seriously incomplete. …
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for macroeconomic outcomes? Using an affine term structure model, we shed new light on these questions. Estimation is … subject to restrictions addressing an estimation bias in expected interest rates obtained by previous studies. Highfrequency … the transmission mechanism and broadly consistent with macroeconomic theory. …
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, or "uncertainty shocks", are an important model ingredient. First, they account for countercyclical movements in risk … changes in both risk-premia and expected future real rates, uncertainty shocks account for about 1/2 of the variance of long …
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margins, but credit and interest rate risk increase. Portfolio rebalancing implies relatively more lending, also compared to … an earlier rate cut within positive territory, and risk-taking reduces regulatory capital cushions and liquidity. …
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Using a representative consumer survey in the U.S., we elicit beliefs about the economic impact of climate change. Respondents perceive a high probability of costly, rare disasters in the near future due to climate change, but not much of an impact on GDP growth. Salience of rare disasters...
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This paper investigates the impact of international shocks - interest rate, commodity price and industrial production shocks - on key macroeconomic variables in ten Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries by using near-VAR models and monthly data from the early 1990s to 2009. In contrast to...
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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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This paper employs an approximation that makes a nonlinear term structure model extremely tractable for analysis of an economy operating near the zero lower bound for interest rates. We show that such a model offers an excellent description of the data compared to the benchmark model and can be...
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