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In 2016, the Bank of Russia implemented a conservative monetary policy aimed at mitigating inflation. Commercial banks … inflation rate and inflation expectations available during the year, a rather moderate decline in the key rate suggested growth …
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Exploiting a granular dataset of banks' security holdings I assess the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bank lending and security holdings. Using a difference-in-differences regression setup and holding the security composition of each bank constant at its level in January 2014, well...
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In 2019, a sharp and largely unexpected slowdown in inflation led to a significant easing of monetary policy. Over the … the rising inflation risks in the H2 2018 and early 2019 caused by the raise of the VAT rate at the beginning of 2019, a …'s rhetoric regarding future decisions began to somewhat relax in March-April 2019, as the inflation index passed a local peak (5 …
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This paper deals with Russia's monetary policy in 2014. The key developments in Russia's monetary policy in 2014 were determined by adverse processes in the Russian economy, which related to the tense geopolitical situation, massive capital outflow and the decline in the price of energy resources
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The increasing importance of commercial banks' noninterest-earning activities rendered conventional monetary policy relatively obsolete in the contemporary economy. It has been a long time since commercial banking was limited to bank lending activities. Indeed, it is now present in practically...
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changes in expected inflation but linked to two alternative channels: an information and a (real) risk premium channel. We …
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This paper is a comprehensive study of the discussion and empirical evidence about the impact of unconventional monetary policy on bond markets. The 2007/2008 Financial Crisis marks the beginning of a new monetary policy regime in which central banks engaged in different types of large scale...
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This is the seventh in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the Wicksell hypothesis, the general interpretation of it, an alternative interpretation, how the alternative interpretation is reconciled with the general interpretation, and its fit with the Taylor rule. A...
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This is the first in a series of seven papers on interest rates and it covers the basic terms and information required for a fuller understanding of the significance of interest rates: the instruments that interest rates apply to, the bank interest margin which plays an important transmission...
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, in addition to the standard variables for real GDP growth, inflation, and the monetary policy stance, indicators of bank …
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