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We explore the effects of forward guidance at the zero lower bound when there is uncertainty over the lift-off date …
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prices. This paper addresses the open question of how shifts in the uncertainty about future policy rates matter for the … transmission of monetary policy to financial markets. To this end, we develop a novel measure of policy uncertainty based on … derivative prices that can be used in event studies. We provide evidence for an FOMC uncertainty cycle, the systematic pattern of …
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The strongest predictor of changes in the Fed Funds rate in the period 1982–2008 was the layoff rate. That fact is puzzling from the perspective of representative-agent models of the economy, which imply that the welfare gains of stabilizing employment fluctuations are small. This paper...
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This article analyzes the effect of valuations-based capital requirements and concentration risk provisions on the risk-shifting response of the banking sector to monetary easing. It provides a closed economy DSGE model for the Euro zone with costly bank capital and two heterogeneous borrowers....
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. A central feature is that matching frictions render labor-market risk countercyclical and endogenous to monetary policy. Our main result is that a majority of households prefer substantial stabilization of...
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We build a New Keynesian business-cycle model with rich household heterogeneity. A central feature is that matching frictions render labor-market risk countercyclical and endogenous to monetary policy. Our main result is that a majority of households prefer substantial stabilization of...
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uncertainty. Although the recent literature has recognized adverse real effects of global uncertainty shocks in EMEs, the role of … real) and monetary policy in amplifying/ stabilizing the real effects of global uncertainty shocks in a small open economy …. We reproduce stylized facts showing significant movements in exchange rates when EMEs are hit with a global uncertainty …
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The confluence of three trends in the U.S. residential housing market - rising home prices, declining interest rates, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities - led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system. Individually, each of these trends is benign, but when they occur...
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This study attempts to identify uncertainty in the long-term rate of interest based on the controversial interest rate … macroeconomic variables without interest uncertainty are thus seriously incomplete. …
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