In the present paper we assess the impact of the Eurozone’s economic policies on specific South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. Since these countries are connected to the EU or the Eurozone and economic interdependence among...

In the present paper we assess the impact of the Eurozone�s economic policies on specific South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. Since these countries are connected to the EU or the Eurozone and the...

This paper uses cointegration and common trends techniques to investigate empirically the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates among the original 15 EU countries. By decomposing each term structure into its transitory and permanent components, we also examine whether...

In this paper, we investigate the monetary transmission mechanism through interest rate and real effective exchange rate channels, for five South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Romania and Turkey. Recent unit root and cointegration techniques in the presence of...

In the present paper we assess the impact of the Eurozone’s economic policies on specific South-Eastern European countries, namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. Since these countries are connected to the EU or the Eurozone and economic interdependence among...

The lending channel is conventionally understood to transmit monetary policy through new loans. We postulate that the lending channel may also operate via the stock of existing loans. In this context, this paper documents a wide diversity in borrowers' features, loan features and price...

This paper postulates that loan contract characteristics, such as maturity of loans and period of rate fixation, play a major role in shaping how swiftly lending rates react to monetary shocks and for explaining diverging speed of transmission of monetary policy across euro area countries. This...

This paper postulates that loan contract characteristics, such as maturity of loans and period of rate fixation, play a major role in shaping how swiftly lending rates react to monetary shocks and for explaining diverging speed of transmission of monetary policy across Euro area countries. This...

We explore the impact of low and negative monetary policy rates in core world economies on bank lending in four small open economies - Canada, Chile, the Czech Republic and Norway - using confidential bank-level data. Our results show that the impact on lending in these small open economies...