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How to escape a liquidity trap with interest rate rules

Duarte, Fernando - 2016

I give necessary and sufficient conditions under which interest-rate feedback rules eliminate aggregate instability by inducing a globally unique optimal equilibrium in a canonical New Keynesian economy with a binding zero lower bound. I consider a central bank that initially keeps interest...

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Monetary policy, price setting, and credit constraints

Balleer, Almut; Zorn, Peter - 2019

We estimate the effects of monetary policy on price-setting behavior in administrative micro data underlying the German producer price index. We find a strong degree of monetary nonneutrality. After expansionary monetary policy, the mass of additional price adjustments is economically small and...

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Changes in monetary regimes and the identification of monetary policy shocks : narrative evidence from Canada

Champagne, Julien; Sekkel, Rodrigo - 2017

We use narrative evidence along with a novel database of real-time data and forecasts from the Bank of Canada's staff … monetary policy in Canada. We show that it is crucial to take into account the break in the conduct of monetary policy caused …

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Monetary policy and uncertainty about the natural unemployment rate

Wieland, Volker - 2003

Inflation-targeting central banks have only imperfect knowledge about the effect of policy decisions on inflation. An important source of uncertainty is the relationship between inflation and unemployment. This paper studies the optimal monetary policy in the presence of uncertainty about the...

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The financial accelerator, wages, and optimal monetary policy

König, Tobias - 2020

This paper studies the effects of labor market outcomes on ﬁrms' loan demand and on credit intermediation. In a ﬁrst step, I investigate how wages in the production sector affect bank net worth and the process of ﬁnancial intermediation in partial equilibrium. Second, the role of the...

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Financial frictions and the reaction of stock prices to monetary policy shocks

Ozdagli, Ali - 2014 - This version: July 29, 2014

This paper reveals and tests a new theoretical implication of the credit channel of monetary policy: as financial frictions (monitoring or auditing costs) increase, the reaction of stock prices to monetary policy shocks decreases. Correspondingly, towards the end of the Enron accounting scandal,...

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Interbank market frictions and unconventional policy in a currency union

Swarbrick, Jonathan; Blattner, Tobias - 2017

In this paper we show how interbank market frictions can play an important role in propagating and enhancing the effects of shocks in a currency union, and discuss the efficacy of two unconventional policy measures; multi-period central bank refinance operations and large scale asset purchases....

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank's effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

Der Zins ist ein wichtiges geldpolitisches Instrument zur Steuerung von Investitionen, um Preisstabilität zu … gewährleisten. Im derzeitigen Niedrigzinsumfeld rücken Implikationen der genauen Gestalt und der Größenordnung des Zins … untersucht. In diesem nicht-linearen Modell kommt es zu starken Reaktionen der Investitionsaktivität, sobald der Zins eine …

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Interest rate bands of inaction and play-hysteresis in domestic investment : evidence for the euro area

Belke, Ansgar; Frenzel Baudisch, Coletta; Göcke, Matthias - 2019

The interest rate represents an important monetary policy tool to steer investment in order to reach price stability. Therefore, implications of the exact form and magnitude of the interest rate-investment nexus for the European Central Bank’s effectiveness in a low interest rate environment...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063971