This paper addresses the credit channel in Germany by using aggregate data. We present a stylized model of the banking firm in which banks decide on their loan supply in the light of expectations about the future course of monetary policy. Applying a VAR model, we estimate the response of bank...

This paper employs a stylized New Keynesian DSGE model for a monetary union to analyze whether cyclical inflation differentials can be explained by cross-country differences concerning the characteristics of financial markets. Our results suggest that empirically plausible degrees of...

Am 19. Dezember 2005 stellte das ifo Institut im Rahmen seines vorweihnachtlichen Pressegesprächs seine Prognose für das Jahr 2006 vor. Nach dem Rekordjahr 2004 hat die Weltwirtschaft auch in diesem Jahr mit einer Wachstumsrate von 4,3% überdurchschnittlich expandiert, und sie dürfte im...

This paper presents a New Keynesian model that dwells on the role of banks in the cost channel of monetary policy. Banks extend loans to firms in an environment of monopolistic competition by setting the loan rate according to a Calvo-type staggered price setting approach, which means that the...

Der Beitrag beleuchtet im Rahmen einer Event-Studie für Deutschland, Großbritannien, Japan und die Vereinigten Staaten das Verhalten des Bruttoinlandsprodukts, des privaten Konsums, der Investitionen, der Kreditvergabe an den privaten Sektor, der Inflationsrate und der Geldpolitik in der...

This paper presents a New Keynesian model that dwells on the role of banks in the cost channel of monetary policy. Banks extend loans to firms in an environment of monopolistic competition by setting the loan rate according to a Calvo-type staggered price setting approach, which means that the...

This paper explores whether the cost channel solves the price puzzle. We set-up a New Keynesian DSGE model and estimate it for the euro area by adopting a minimum distance approach. Our findings suggest that - under certain parameter restrictions which are not rejected by the data - the cost...