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We examine the macroeconomic and term-premia implications of monetary policy uncertainty shocks. Using Eurodollar options, we employ the VIX methodology to measure implied volatility about future short-term interest rates at various horizons. We identify monetary policy uncertainty shocks using...
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This paper estimates a nonlinear Interacted-VAR model to investigate whether the effectiveness of monetary policy shocks in the Euro area is influenced by the level of European uncertainty. Generalized Impulse Response Functions à la Koop et al. (1996) suggest that the peak and cumulative...
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months after the monetary shock. Since unconventional monetary policies have now become part of a central bank's arsenal …
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-lasting effects on output and total factor productivity (TFP). In this paper, I argue that the typical monetary shock has been … confounded with the news shock about future technology. I propose and implement a novel SVAR approach that effectively ``cleans …'' the technology component from the traditional Cholesky monetary shock. With the new identification, I find that a monetary …
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We examine the credit channel of monetary policy from 2000 to 2015 in the Euro Area using daily monetary policy shock … and credit risk measures in an autoregressive distributed lag model. We find that an expansionary monetary policy shock …
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Using federal funds futures data, we show the importance of surprise communication as a component of monetary policy for U.S. macro variables, both before and after 2008. While Gürkaynak et al. (2005) stress the importance of monetary policy communication for asset prices, much of the...
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policies further contribute to restoring credit and output growth. However, in the case of a negative commodity price shock …
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In the data, prices change both temporarily and permanently. Standard Calvo models focus on permanent price changes and take one of two shortcuts when confronted with the data: drop temporary changes from the data or leave them in and treat them as permanent. We provide a menu cost model that...
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We identify a novel dimension of monetary policy from high-frequency changes in asset prices around ECB policy events, orthogonal to surprises extracted from risk-free interest rates. We find that it is present in policy events that were interpreted by real-time market commentaries as containing...
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We examine the macroeconomic effects of forward guidance shocks at the zero lower bound. Empirically, we identify forward guidance shocks using unexpected changes in futures contracts around monetary policy announcements. We then embed these policy shocks into a standard vector autoregression to...
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