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We study the impact of liquidity shocks in Italy in the 1991–1992 period, when the lira belonged to the narrow ERM band with no exchange controls. We conduct our analysis by constructing (not simply assuming) predetermined measures of liquidity supply shocks, taking into account the...
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We develop a monetary model that is unique in its ability to deliver a negative correlation between aggregate consumption growth and short-term real interest rates consistent with U.S. data. The essential ingredient to this success is endogenous asset market segmentation permitting the extent of...
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In this paper we consider the evidence of liquidity effects on the exchange rate. We consider VAR systems for the U.S. and Euro-area and found that while innovations in US. monetary poiicy lead to the expected depreciation (appreciation) of the U.S. dollar, positive innovations to the Euro-area...
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In this paper, we study transmission of global funding shocks to emerging economies (EMs) from the perspective of … liquidity shocks to EMs as compared to benchmark short-term bond yields. Next, we disentangle the transmission into its various … wholesale funding and share of foreign banks. Our results indicate that money market rates in EMs react to global shocks, and …
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This paper, after reviewing briefly the early steps of European monetary integration and key elements of the EMU project as reflected in the Treaty of Maastricht, analyses the monetary integration strategy and convergence experience of member states, in particular that of Greece, in the 1990s...
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This paper investigates how the implementation of monetary policy affects the dynamics and the volatility of the federal funds rate. Since the early 1980s, the most important changes in the Fed?s conduct of monetary policy refer to the role of the federal funds rate target and the reserve...
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This paper provides the first empirical examination of the microstructure of the euro money market, using tick data from brokers located in 6 countries. Special emphasis is put on the institutional environment (monetary policy decisions and their implementation, payment systems and private...
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This study of the major industrial countries' interbank markets for overnight loans links the behavior of very short-term interest rates to the operating procedures of the countries' central banks. Previous studies have focused on key features of the U.S. federal funds rate's behavior. We find...
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In this paper, we study transmission of global funding shocks to emerging economies (EMs) from the perspective of … liquidity shocks to EMs as compared to benchmark short-term bond yields. Next, we disentangle the transmission into its various … wholesale funding and share of foreign banks. Our results indicate that money market rates in EMs react to global shocks, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012429357
This paper provides a novel analysis of quantitative easing (QE) that focuses on its implicit fiscal dimension. The first segment examines the theory of the liquidity trap and introduces a distinction between a "weak" and "strong" liquidity trap. The second segment analyzes the impact of QE...
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