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Nyborg, Kjell G. - 2015

This paper seeks to inform about a feature of monetary policy that is largely overlooked, yet occupies a central role in modern monetary and financial systems, namely central bank collateral frameworks. Their importance can be understood by the observation that the money at the core of these...

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Central bank policies and financial markets : lessons from the Euro crisis

Mody, Ashoka; Nedeljkovic, Milan - 2018 - This version: November 20, 2018

The European Central Bank (ECB) took many measures to combat the eurozone's rolling financial crisis. For providing … desperately scarce dollars to eurozone banks, the ECB relied on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Using a novel econometric framework, we … October 2009 and September 2012, the most intense phase of the eurozone crisis. Dollar liquidity clearly reduced stress in …

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Twenty years of the German euro are more than enough

Bibow, Jörg - 2018

This paper reviews the performance of the euro area since the euro's launch 20 years ago. It argues that the euro crisis has exposed existential flaws in the euro regime. Intra-area divergences and the corresponding buildup of imbalances had remained unchecked prior to the crisis. As those...

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Monetary policy transmission below zero

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kerola, Eeva; Laine, Olli-Matti - 2023

This study considers the pass-through of different ECB monetary policy measures to bank corporate lending rates of different maturities during 2010-2020. We find changes in the pass-through as policy rates first dip below zero in 2014 and again when negative interest rates become more persistent...

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Credit Rating Agency Announcements and the Eurozone Sovereign Debt Crisis

Baum, Christopher F. - 2013

French, Italian, German and Spanish long-term sovereign bonds during the culmination of the Eurozone debt crisis in 2011 …-time capital allocation in the Eurozone. Their downgradings caused investors to rebalance their portfolios across member countries …

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Heterogeneous effects of unconventional monetary policyon the bond yields across the euro area

Demir, İshak; Eroğlu, Burak Alparslan; … - 2021

This paper investigates the impact of the European Central Bank's unconventionalmonetary policies (UMP) between 2008-2019 on the European government bond yields.It adopts a novel econometric approach that combines a data-rich factor analysis andVAR with heteroskadasiticy based identification....

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The failure of ECB monetary policy from a Mises-Hayek perspective

Schnabl, Gunther - 2017

The paper analyses the common European monetary policy based on a Mises-Hayek overinvestment framework, which is combined with the theory of optimum currency areas. It shows how since the turn of the millennium a too expansionary monetary policy contributed to unsustainable overinvestment booms...

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The new normal: bank lending and negative interest rates in Austria

Barmeier, Marcel - 2022

Evidence on the effects of negative interest rates on bank lending is inconclusive so far. By applying a difference-in-difference estimation using granular loan level data with a large coverage from Austria, I show, contrary to some previous findings, that the introduction of a negative deposit...

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Does money matter in the euro area? : evidence from a new Divisia index

Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2014

Standard simple-sum monetary aggregates, like M3, sum up monetary assets that are imperfect substitutes and provide different transaction and investment services. Divisia monetary aggregates, originated from Barnett (1980), are derived from economic aggregatio and index number theory and aim to...

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How much fiscal backing must the ECB have? : the euro area is not the Philippines

Belke, Ansgar - 2010

The ECB has accepted increasing amounts of rubbish collateral since the crisis started leading to exposure to serious private sector credit risk (i.e. default risk) on its collateralised lending and reverse operations ("repo"). This has led some commentators to argue that the ECB needs "fiscal...

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