This article analyzes the effect of endogenous valuations-based capital requirements on risk-shifting in a closed economy DSGE Model. It adds to the existing literature by including concentration risk into the portfolio allocation of the commercial banks. It finds that capital requirements move...

Negative interest rate policies (NIRP) have become an established monetary policy instrument in the toolkit of the ECB. We discuss NIRP in the euro area based on theoretical considerations and available empirical evidence. We find that NIRP had some positive impact on loan growth and investment...

We analyze the transmission of monetary policy to the costs of hedging using options order book data. Monetary policy transmits to hedging costs both by changing the relevant state variables, such as the value of the underlying, its volatility and tail risk, and by affecting option market...

The 1955-56 macroeconomic crisis is a central event in modern Irish history. Yet, despite this centrality, its causes are not clearly understood. In 1955-6, Ireland, which had previously followed British interest rates in lockstep as part of its fixed exchange with the latter, briefly...

The 1955-56 macroeconomic crisis is a central event in modern Irish history. Yet, despite this centrality, its causes are not clearly understood. In 1955-6, Ireland, which had previously followed British interest rates in lockstep as part of its fixed exchange with the latter, briefly...

We investigate the role of monetary policy in stock price misalignments and explore whether central banks can attenuate excessive mispricing as suggested by the proponents of a "leaning against the wind" monetary policy. Decomposing stock prices into expected excess dividends, an equity risk...

We investigate how corporate legacy debt, through heterogeneous household portfolios, affects monetary policy's ability to control inflation. We find that (1) corporate debt generates an income effect that counters the traditional substitution effect, reducing the effectiveness of rate changes...

This study explores the effects of ECB's monetary policy surprise spillovers on the financial markets of Sweden and Denmark, two small open economies (SOEs) with close ties to the euro area. Analyzing high-frequency intra-day interest rate data from 2006 to 2022, the research highlights several...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of the media transmission channel of the Federal Reserve (Fed) communication with the general public. Spanning a 20-year period (2003-2023), around 5,400 Fed communication documents and 333,000 articles from USA Today are analyzed. A positive and...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effects of interest rates on rates of capacity utilization, capital accumulation and profit in Italy within a post-Kaleckian theoretical framework. The model employed in the analysis, which was developed by Hein/Schoder (2011), is based on monetary-...