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Using panel data models, we analyze the flypaper effects-whether intergovernmental fiscal transfers or states' own income determine expenditure commitments - on ecological fiscal spending in India. The econometric results show that the unconditional fiscal transfers, rather than the states' own...
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As part of its August 2016 policy package, the Bank of England announced a scheme to purchase up to £10 billion of corporate bonds. Only sterling investment-grade bonds issued by firms making a ‘material' contribution to the UK economy were eligible to be purchased. So eligible bonds...
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short-term interest rate, inflation, the growth of industrial production, and the government debt ratio. The results show …
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We trace the impact of the ECB's asset purchase programme (APP) on the sovereign yield curve. Exploiting granular information on sectoral asset holdings and ECB asset purchases, we construct a novel measure of the "free-float of duration risk" borne by price-sensitive investors. We include this...
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We trace the impact of the European Central Bank (ECB) asset purchase programme (APP) on the yield curve. Exploiting granular information on sectoral asset holdings and ECB asset purchases, we construct a novel measure of the "free-float of duration risk" borne by pricesensitive investors. We...
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rate is the key determinant of the long-term interest rate, while the rate of core inflation and the pace of economic …-term interest rates, the rate of inflation, the pace of economic activity, and the fiscal balance ratio on long-term interest rates …
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Through large-scale asset purchases, widely known as quantitative easing (QE), central banks around the world have affected the supply of safe assets by buying quasi-safe bonds in exchange for truly safe reserves. We examine the pricing effects of the European Central Bank's bond purchases in...
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We use two market-based measures of inflation compensation to explore the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to … inflation markets. New information about the Fed's monetary policy stance becomes available on the days of meetings of the … Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and is reflected in asset prices. We measure the sensitivity of inflation compensation …
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We show theoretically that inflation disagreement drives a wedge between real and nominal yields and raises their … levels and volatilities. We demonstrate empirically that an inflation disagreement increase of one standard deviation raises … real and nominal yields and their volatilities, break-even inflation, and the inflation risk premium by at least 30% of …
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We show that inflation disagreement, not just expected inflation, has an impact on nominal interest rates. In contrast … to expected inflation, which mainly affects the wedge between real and nominal yields, inflation disagreement affects … inflation disagreement raises real and nominal yields and their volatilities. Inflation disagreement is positively related to …
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