Ever since its establishment in 1999, the European Central Bank worked on maintaining relative price stability mainly through inflation targeting. The ECB aims at a target inflation rate below but close to 2%. However, the diversity among the member states in the European Union and the Eurozone...

How does domestic monetary policy in systemic countries spillover to the rest of the world? This paper examines the transmission channel of domestic monetary policy in the crossborder context. We use exogenous shocks to monetary policy in systemically important economies, including the U.S., and...

Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 1938

Este trabajo investiga el impacto de las contracciones de crédito privado sobre el rendimiento del mercado laboral. Se estiman respuestas al impulso para el desempleo total, juvenil y de larga duración utilizando proyecciones locales para un panel de 20 países de la OCDE durante el período...

En este documento se proponen nuevos métodos con el objetivo de construir intervalos de confianza para el sesgo del estimador de mínimos cuadrados en dos etapas y para la distorsión del tamaño del test de Wald asociado a los modelos de variables instrumentales. Es importante destacar que...

From 2000 to 2007, Estonia was one of the fastest growing emerging market economies. A housing boom, fuelled by capital inflows and credit, resulted in skyrocketing house prices and an over-expanded construction sector. However, the currency board limited the Bank of Estonia’s ability to curb...