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Exchange rates and the information channel of monetary policy
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2020
We disentangle the effects of monetary policy announcements on real economic variables into an interest rate shock … component and a central bank information shock component. We identify both components using changes in interest rate futures and … that a contractionary interest rate shock appreciates the dollar, increases the excess bond premium, and leads to a decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295246
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The financial market effects of the ECB's asset purchase programs
Lewis, Vivien; Roth, Markus - 2017
The European Central Bank's asset purchase programs, while intended to stabilize the economy, may have unintended side effects on financial stability. This paper aims at gauging the effects on financial markets, the banking sector, and lending to non-financial firms. Using a structural vector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011712553
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Is there an information channel of monetary policy?
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024 - This version: May 17, 2024
shocks and study their effects on financial variables and macro variables. The first shock resembles a conventional monetary … policy shock, and the second resembles an unconventional monetary shock. The third shock leads to an increase in interest … and uncertainty decrease, and the U.S. dollar depreciates. Therefore, this third shock combines all the characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535937
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The effects of the ECB's pandemic-related monetary policy measures
Nelimarkka, Jaakko; Laine, Olli-Matti - 2021
We assess the macroeconomic impact of pandemic-related monetary policy measures of the ECB. Conditioning on counterfactual interest rate paths that would have materialised in the absence of the policies, the macroeconomic effects are measured using structural vector autoregressions. In the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622376
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Update to figure 1 in "Macroeconomic Shocks and their Propagation"
Chiarotti, Edoardo - 2021
a shock in the Federal Funds Rate, following the baseline and variations of the Vector Autoregression (VAR) models in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012416282
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Identifying monetary policy and central bank information shocks using high-frequency exchange rates
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - 2019
level clearly. A positive information shock which also induces increases in interest rate is perceived by private agents as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304714
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Central bank information effects and transatlantic spillovers
Jarociński, Marek - 2020
The news about the economy contained in a central bank announcement can affect public expectations. This paper shows, using both event studies and vector autoregressions, that such central bank information effects are an important channel of the transatlantic spillover of monetary policy. They...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298995
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Better off without the euro? : structural VAR assessment of European monetary policy
Fritsche, Jan Philipp; Harms, Patrick Christian - 2020
Modern OCA theory has developed different conclusions on when forming a currency union is beneficial. An important pragmatic question in this context is: Did delegating monetary policy to the ECB increase stress in the individual euro area countries? An SVAR analysis reveals that monetary stress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301359
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20 years of common European monetary policy : reasons to celebrate
Fritsche, Jan Philipp; Harms, Patrick Christian - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 20/21, pp. 179-187
Twenty years after the introduction of the euro, this Weekly Report uses an empirical analysis to assess the performance of monetary policy in the EMU founding states. It is often claimed that the monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) cannot outperform its national predecessors, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012007718
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Is there an information channel of monetary policy?
Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - 2024
shocks and study their effects on financial variables and macro variables. The first shock resembles a conventional monetary … policy shock, and the second resembles an unconventional monetary shock. The third shock leads to an increase in interest … and uncertainty decrease, and the U.S. dollar depreciates. Therefore, this third shock combines all the characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560738