The Transmission Mechanism of European Monetary Policy: Is There Heterogeneity? Is it Changing over Time?

By Matteo Ciccarelli, Alessandro Rebucci

March 1, 2002

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Matteo Ciccarelli, and Alessandro Rebucci. The Transmission Mechanism of European Monetary Policy: Is There Heterogeneity? Is it Changing over Time?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

This paper investigates the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in the four largest euro area countries by means Bayesian estimation of dynamic econometric models. Based on pre-EMU evidence from Germany, France, Italy, and Spain, we show that: (i) there are differences in the timing of the effects of monetary policy on economic activity, but their cumulative impact after two years is rather homogeneous; (ii) the transmission mechanism seems to have changed over time in the run-up to EMU but its degree of heterogeneity has not decreased; (iii) the "European-wide" effects of monetary policy may have become faster in the second half of the 1990s. We interpret this evidence by conjecturing that the transmission mechanism of monetary policy had already become relatively homogenous in the second part of the 1990s.

Subject: Econometric analysis, Econometric models, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Monetary policy, Monetary policy instruments, Monetary transmission mechanism, Short term interest rates

Keywords: Bayesian estimation, Econometric models, Europe, European monetary policy, Exchange rates, Gibbs sampling, Heterogeneity, Impact of monetary policy, Monetary policy instruments, Monetary policy objective, Monetary policy parameter, Monetary policy shock, Monetary transmission mechanism, Parameters of the transmission mechanism, Posterior distribution, Short term interest rates, Time series, Transmission mechanism, Transmission mechanism of monetary policy, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

42
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Working Paper No. 2002/054
Stock No:

WPIEA0542002
ISBN:

9781451847529
ISSN:

1018-5941

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