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This paper argues that the loose monetary policy of two of the world’s most important financial institutions-the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank-were ultimately responsible for the outburst of global financial crisis of 2008 - 09. Unusually low interest rates in 2001 -...
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imbalances did not grow endlessly, instead narrowing when region-specific liquidity shocks subsided, mutual assistance created …
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framework is preserved. In the short term, unanticipated shocks to the real exchange rate may instead affect aggregate inflation … the size, differences in economic structure and the variance-covariance matrix of supply and real exchange rate shocks … real exchange rate or country-specific supply shocks in ACs, the consequences would be limited for both the current and the …
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Credit default swaps ("CDSs") were widely blamed as a primary cause of the recent financial crisis; CDSs fomented panic as the price of credit protection spiked and contributed to the Federal Reserve's decision to bail out American International Group. To reduce the likelihood that credit...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the macroeconomic effectiveness of expansionary non-standard monetary policy measures in a regulated banking environment. Based on an estimated DSGE model, we explore the interactions between central bank asset purchases and bank capital-based financial...
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The accumulation of large foreign asset positions by many central banks through sustained foreign exchange (FX) intervention has raised questions about its associated fiscal costs. This paper clarifies conceptual issues regarding how to measure these costs both from an ex-post and an ex-ante...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the macroeconomic effectiveness of expansionary non-standard monetary policy measures in a regulated banking environment. Based on an estimated DSGE model, we explore the interactions between central bank asset purchases and bank capital-based financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011975539
This paper explores how non-U.S. central banks behave when firms in their economies engage in currency mismatch, borrowing more heavily in dollars than justified by their operating exposures. We begin by documenting that, in a panel of 53 countries, central bank holdings of dollar reserves are...
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asymmetric national output shocks. The welfare implications are deduced both analytically and with the use of simulations. In a …
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in shocks and differences in the degree of wage and price flexibility. …
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