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Chapter 23. The Performance of Alternative Monetary Regimes

Ball, Laurence - In: Handbook of monetary economics : volume 3, (pp. 1303-1343). 2010

This paper compares the performance of economies with different monetary regimes during the last quarter century. The conclusions include: (1) There is little evidence that inflation targeting affects performance in advanced economies, but some evidence of benefits in emerging economies; (2)...

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Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union in the Presence of Uncertainty about the Central Bank Preferences

Dai, Meixing - 2009

In this paper, we examine the link between political transparency of a common central bank (CCB) and decentralized supply-side fiscal policies in a monetary union. We find that the opacity of a conservative CCB has a restrictive effect on national fiscal policies since each government...

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Equilibrium contracts for the central bank of a monetary union

Dixit, Avinash K.; Jensen, Henrik - 2000

We consider the political economy of a monetary union wheremember governments attempt to influence the policy of the commoncentral bank. Modeling this as a common agency with incentivecontracts, we show that if incentives are all that matters for the bank,the equilibrium implements a weighted...

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Equilibrium Contracts for the Central Bank of a Monetary Union

Dixit, Avinash; Jensen, Henrik - 2021

We consider the political economy of a monetary union where member governments attempt to influence the policy of the common central bank. Modeling this as a common agency with incentive contracts, we show that if incentives are all that matters for the bank, the equilibrium implements a...

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Exchange rates and the information channel of monetary policy

Holtemöller, Oliver; Kriwoluzky, Alexander; Kwak, Boreum - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2020

We disentangle the effects of monetary policy announcements on real economic variables into an interest rate shock … component and a central bank information shock component. We identify both components using changes in interest rate futures and … that a contractionary interest rate shock appreciates the dollar, increases the excess bond premium, and leads to a decline …

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Inflation targeting as a shock absorber

Fratzscher, Marcel; Große Steffen, Christoph; Rieth, Malte - 2018

We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of …

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Central bank information shocks and exchange rates

Franz, Thorsten - 2020 - This version: February 2020

The dynamic effects of ECB announcements, disentangled into pure monetary policy and central bank information shocks, on the euro (EUR) exchange rate are examined using a Bayesian Proxy Vector Autoregressive (VAR) model fed with high-frequency data. Contractionary monetary policy shocks result...

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Monetary policy, stock prices and central banks cross-country comparisons of cointegrated VAR models

Belke, Ansgar; Wiedmann, Marcel - 2013

In this paper, we analyze the long-run behavior and short-run dynamics of stock markets across some selected developed and emerging economies – namely the United States, the Euro Area, Japan, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Korea, Thailand and Brazil – in the Cointegrated...

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The macroeconomic effects of different CBDC regimes in an economy with a heterogeneous household sector

Magin, Jana Anjali; Neyer, Ulrike; Stempel, Daniel - 2023

higher consumption. Moreover, the shock absorption capability increases in an economy with CBDC. This particularly applies to …

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CBDC and business cycle dynamics in a New Monetarist New Keynesian model

Assenmacher-Wesche, Katrin; Bitter, Lea; Ristiniemi, Annukka - 2023

To study implications of an interest-bearing CBDC on the economy, we integrate a New Monetarist-type decentralised market that explicitly accounts for the means-of-exchange function of bank deposits and CBDC into a New Keynesian model with financial frictions. The central bank influences the...

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