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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788228103321

Autore

Stavrev Emil

Titolo

Euro Area Monetary Policy in Uncharted Waters / / Emil Stavrev, Thomas Harjes, Martin Cihak

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2009

ISBN

1-4623-1540-2

1-4518-7332-8

9786612843952

1-4527-5208-7

1-282-84395-8

Descrizione fisica

34 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HarjesThomas

CihakMartin

Soggetti

Monetary policy - European Union countries - Econometric models

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Financial crises - European Union countries - Econometric models

Banks and banking, Central - European Union countries - Econometric models

Banks and Banking

Financial Risk Management

Investments: Bonds

Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects

General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement and Data)

Banks

Depository Institutions

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

Financial Crises

Banking

Finance

Investment & securities

Economic & financial crises & disasters

Yield curve

Central bank policy rate

Bond yields

Financial crises

Interest rates

Bonds



Banks and banking

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"August 2009."

Sommario/riassunto

We analyze the European Central Bank's (ECB's) response to the global financial crisis. Our results suggest that even during the crisis, the core part of ECB's monetary policy transmission-from policy rates to market rates-has continued to operate, but at a decreased efficiency. We also find some evidence that the ECB's non-standard measures, namely the lengthening of the maturity of monetary policy operations and the provision of funds at the fixed rate, reduced money market term spreads, facilitating the pass-through from policy to market rates. Furthermore, the results imply that the substantial increase in the ECB's balance sheet may have contributed to a reduction in government bond term spreads.