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Capital Inflows, Exchange Rate Flexibility, and Credit Booms
Magud, Nicolás E. - 2012
The prospects of expansionary monetary policies in the advanced countries for the foreseeable future have renewed the debate over policy options to cope with large capital inflows that are, at least partly, driven by low interest rates in the financial centers. Historically, capital flow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110098
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Monetary policy after the crisis : a joint publication with the National Bank of Poland
Gnan, Ernest (ed.); Kokoszcynski, Ryszard (ed.);  … - Conference Monetary Policy after the Crisis <2011, Warschau>; … - 2011
On 4 March 2011, SUERF – The European Money and Finance Forum and the National Bank of Poland jointly organised a conference on the theme of: "Monetary Policy after the Crisis". Following a call for papers with a large number of submissions, the scientific committee selected 9 papers, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011710723
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Heterogeneous beliefs and housing-market boom-bust cycles in a small open economy
Tomura, Hajime - 2009
. The model suggests that simultaneous boom-bust cycles in house prices, output, investment, consumption and hours worked … nominal policy interest rate and the CPI inflation rate decline during housing booms and rise as house prices fall. These … demonstrate that stronger policy responses to inflation amplify housing-market boom-bust cycles. Also, higher loan-to-value ratios …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003852849
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Interest-rate pegs, central bank asset purchases and the reversal puzzle
Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Kienzler, Daniel; … - 2017
agents' inflation expectations are influenced by a monetary authority which follows a price-level-targeting rule instead of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671387
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The impact of interest rate risk on bank lending
Beutler, Toni; Bichsel, Robert; Bruhin, Adrian; Danton, … - 2015
In this paper, we empirically analyze the transmission of realized interest rate risk - the gain or loss in bank economic capital due to movements in interest rates - to bank lending. We exploit a unique panel data set that contains supervisory information on the repricing maturity profiles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396762
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How banks respond to negative interest rates : evidence from the Swiss exemption threshold
Basten, Christoph; Mariathasan, Mike - 2018
We analyze the effect of negative monetary policy rates on banks, using detailed supervisory information from Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank reserves exempt from negative rates. More affected banks...
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Monetary policy in a low interest rate environment : reversal rate and risk-taking
Heider, Florian; Leonello, Agnese - 2021
Using new quarterly narrative evidence, this paper examines the macroeconomic impact of reforms of unemployment benefits (UB) and employment protection legislation (EPL) in the euro area from a Bayesian narrative panel VAR. The approach complements existing micro-econometric evidence by aligning...
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Banks and negative interest rates
Heider, Florian; Saidi, Farzad; Schepens, Glenn - 2021
In this paper, we survey the nascent literature on the transmission of negative policy rates. We discuss the theory of how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the growing evidence that negative policy rates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518247
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Excess reserves and monetary policy tightening
Fricke, Daniel; Greppmair, Stefan; Paludkiewicz, Karol - 2024 - This draft: February 2, 2024
We show that the transmission of the European Central Bank’s (ECB) recent monetary policy tightening differs across banks depending on their level of excess reserves. Specifically, the net worth of reserve-rich banks may display a boost when the interest rate paid on reserves increases...
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The new normal: bank lending and negative interest rates in Austria
Barmeier, Marcel - 2022
Evidence on the effects of negative interest rates on bank lending is inconclusive so far. By applying a difference-in-difference estimation using granular loan level data with a large coverage from Austria, I show, contrary to some previous findings, that the introduction of a negative deposit...
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