We study the transmission channels through which shocks affect the global economy and the crosscountry comovement of real economic activity. For this purpose, we collect detailed data on international trade and financial linkages as well as domestic macro and financial variables for a large set...

We estimate that U.S. monetary policy has sizable spillover effects on global economic activity. In response to a surprise increase in the federal funds rate of 25 basis points, real output in our sample of 44 countries declines on average by 0.9% after three years. We find that international...

Objective: This study investigates the effects of monetary policy interventions in Central and Eastern European (CEE) economies on shifts in financial market linkages during the Covid-19-induced crisis. We explore the market reaction to both standard and non-standard (e.g., quantitative easing)...

The interferences among some financial, economic and monetary variables are checked as an indicator of economic performance in the long run and for the monetary policy applied between the Great Moderation (GM) of 1987-2001 and the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009. For achieving this target,...

Die EZB hat während der Finanzkrise insgesamt die richtigen Entscheidungen getroffen. Das moderne und flexible geldpolitische Instrumentarium musste im Verlauf der Krise nur wenig angepasst werden, um die Banken ausreichend mit Liquidität zu versorgen. Die Zinspolitik stand bis zum Sommer 2008...