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European Department and Research Department

Contents

  • I. Introduction

  • II. The Model

    • A. Credit Markets

      • A.1. Domestic Intermediaries

      • A.2. International Intermediaries

    • B. Households

      • B.1. Savers

      • B.2. Labor Unions and Wage Setting

      • B.3. Borrowers

    • C. Firms, Technology, and Sticky Prices

      • C.1. Final Goods Producers

      • C.2. Intermediate Goods Producers

    • D. Closing the Model

      • D.1. Market Clearing Conditions

      • D.2. Monetary Policy and Interest Rates

  • III. Parameter Estimates

    • A. Data

    • B. Calibrated Parameters

    • C. Prior and Posterior Distributions

    • D. Variance Decomposition: The Role of Demand and Financial Shocks

  • IV. Decomposing the Business Cycle in the Euro Area

    • A. HBS Countries

    • B. Core

    • C. The Role of Financial Frictions

  • V. Does One Monetary Policy Fit All?

  • VI. Impulse Response Analysis

  • VII. Conclusions

  • A Appendix: Data and Sources

  • B Appendix: Linearized Conditions

  • List of Tables

    • 1 Calibrated Parameters

    • 2 Prior and Posterior Distributions, Economic Parameters

    • 3 Prior and Posterior Distributions, AR(1) Shock Processes

    • 4 Variance Decomposition

  • List of Figures

    • 1 Ten Year Government Bond Rates in Selected Euro Area Countries

    • 2 Excess Credit and Unemployment Rates

    • 3 Shock Decomposition, Output and Output Gaps

    • 4 Shock Decomposition, Credit and House Prices

    • 5 Output Gaps and Financial Wedges

    • 6 Natural Rates of Interest and Deviations from Taylor Rule

    • 7 IRF - Financial Shocks

    • 8 IRF -Housing Demand Shocks

    • 9 IRF -Monetary Policy Shocks

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Financial Factors: Implications for Output Gaps
Author:
Mr. Pau Rabanal
and
Marzie Taheri Sanjani