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comprehensive data set, we show that the market is resilient during crisis episodes and may even act as a shock absorber, in the … different repo markets shows that anonymous CCP-based trading, safe collateral, and the absence of an unwind mechanism are the …
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between Romania and the Eurozone cannot be rejected, despite the rapid disinflation at the beginning of the sample. …
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foreign counterparts, I examine its role as shock ampli.er and the implications for unconventional policy interventions Using … as shock multipliers on union output. Country-specific unconventional policies of direct lending to firms seem to be the … interbank market seems to be very sensitive to the type of shock and the interbank market size. Hence, the central bank should …
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The combination of discretionary monetary policy, labor-market distortions and nominal wage rigidity yields an inflation bias as monetary policy tries to exploit nominal wage contracts to address labour-market distortions Although an inflation target eliminates this inflation bias, it creates a...
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Central bank independence has been championed on the grounds that it avoids political business cycles, the time-inconsistency problem of discretionary monetary policy, and political conflicts. However, after the financial crisis, central banks have resorted to unconventional monetary policies...
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Market distress can be the catalyst of a deleveraging wave, as in the 2007/08 financial crisis. This paper demonstrates how market distress and deleveraging can fuel each other in the presence of adverse selection problems in asset markets. At the core of the detrimental feedback loop is agents'...
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Monetary policy can promote financial stability and improve household welfare. We con- sider a macro model with a financial sector in which banks do not actively issue equity, output and growth depend on the aggregate level of bank equity, and equilibrium is inefficient. Monetary policy rules...
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This paper studies monetary regime choice between monetary union and flexible exchange rate regime in a large open economy framework. The classical approach emphasizes that monetary unions are inherently costly because a single interest rate cannot respond effectively to different shocks of...
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This paper investigates the dynamic effects of monetary and fiscal policy in a monetary union, which is characterized by asymmetric interest rate transmission. This asymmetry gives rise to intertemporal reversals in the relative effectiveness of policy on member country outputs. The direction...
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We show that a .scal expansion by the core economies of the euro area would have a large and positive impact on periphery GDP assuming that policy rates remain low for a prolonged period. Under our preferred model speci.cation, an expansion of core government spending equal to one percent of...
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