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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 excess liquidity in the euro area is a product of a long period of quantitative easing. It changed the operational … system (ARS). To eliminate excess liquidity and return to the SRS, the ECB must intensify quantitative tightening, which is …
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Every monetary policy decision by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) is accompanied by a written statement about the state of the economy and the policy outlook, but only every second decision by a published interest rate forecast. We exploit this difference to study the relative influences...
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We examine the relationship between monetary policy operations and interbank borrowing and lending of funds using sovereign bonds as collateral. We first establish that, in the precrisis period, there are important but rather weak relations between these funding sources and that this...
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demand for liquidity in the interbank market as wells as banks' access to this market. Results indicate that riskier banks … pay higher prices and borrow less liquidity, concurrent with the existence of market discipline. More capitalized and … higher prices and hoard liquidity when liquidity positions across them are more imbalanced and during a monetary policy …
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This paper examines the impact of exogenous liquidity shocks in the unsecured interbank market. We evaluate the effects … of idiosyncratic liquidity shocks - arising from deposits outflow at the bank level - and of the aggregate liquidity … shock related to the U.S. tapering observed between May and September of 2013. We find that both liquidity shocks are …
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approach to address endogeneity. Consistent with economic theory, our estimates show a nonlinear demand function that exhibits …
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On September 3-4, 2009, SUERF and Utrecht University School of Economics jointly organized the 28th SUERF Colloquium on "The Quest for Stability" in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The papers contained in this SUERF Study jointly published with DNB and Rabobank are based on contributions to this...
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In the New-Keynesian model, optimal interest rate policy under uncertainty is formulated without reference to monetary aggregates as long as certain standard assumptions on the distributions of unobservables are satisfied. The model has been criticized for failing to explain common trends in...
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This paper reviews the theoretical literature at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance to draw lessons on the connection between vulnerabilities in the financial system and the macroeconomy, and on how monetary policy affects that connection. This literature finds that financial...
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