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We augment a standard monetary DSGE model to include a banking sector and financial markets. We fit the model to Euro Area and US data. We find that agency problems in financial contracts, liquidity constraints facing banks and shocks that alter the perception of market risk and hit financial...
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Using an event-study design, we investigate monetary policy interest-rate-to-performance sensitivity of the European banking sector over the 07/2012–06/2017 period when interest rates were (close to) zero. We apply the Wordscores approach to introductory statements of ECB's Governing Council...
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More than two years ago the European Central Bank (ECB) adopted a negative interest rate policy (NIRP) to achieve its …, interest rate cuts also weigh on bank profitability. Substantial rate cuts may at some point outweigh the benefits from higher …
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how the transmission depends on bank balance sheets, and how this changes once policy rates become negative. We review the …
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This paper studies the effects of harmonizing collateral policy in a monetary union. In 2007, the European Central Bank …
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We augment a standard monetary DSGE model to include a banking sector and financial markets. We fit the model to Euro Area and US data. We find that agency problems in financial contracts, liquidity constraints facing banks and shocks that alter the perception of market risk and hit financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316211
the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for …
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assesses the effect of the NIRP on the net interest rate margins of the euro area banks using quarterly consolidated bank level … policy rates. The econometric results confirm the effect of the interest rate level on bank profitability and, in some … specifications, also suggest an additional negative effect on bank profitability in the period of negative euro area short …
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This paper examines the effects of monetary policy on the equity values of European banks. We identify monetary policy shocks by looking at changes in the EONIA one-month and two-year swap contract rates during narrow windows around the press statements and press conferences announcing monetary...
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the introduction of negative deposit rates by the European Central Bank in June 2014 and a novel securities register for …
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