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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827474203321

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

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

34 p. : ill

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HarjesThomas

CihakMartin

Disciplina

332.4;332.494

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."

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. ECB's Policy Response to the Crisis -- III. Has the Transmission Been Impaired? -- A. Transmission Channels -- B. Methodology -- C. Results -- IV. Monetary Policy and The Return of The Liquidity Trap -- A. Overview -- B. Empirical Assessment -- V. Conclusions -- References -- Tables -- 1. VAR Parameter Estimates -- 2. Risk Factor Loadings -- Figures -- 1. Euro Area: Recent Developments of the ECB's Liquidity Operations -- 2. Euro Area: Cost of Borrowing by Businesses and Households -- 3. Euro Area: Pass-through of The ECB Policy Rate Changes to Market Rates -- 4. Euro Area: The Impact of Crisis on Policy Rate Pass-through -- 5. Euro Area: VAR Residuals of Market Rates -- 6. Euro Area: Effectiveness of Monetary Policy -- 7. Euro Area Macro-Financial Model: Government Bond Yields and Model -- Appendix -- I. Small Theory-based Model for the Euro Area.

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.