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ECB Spillovers to Emerging Europe: The Past and Current Experience
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Philipp Engler https://isni.org/isni/0000000404811396 International Monetary Fund

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Gianluigi Ferrucci
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Pawel Zabczyk https://isni.org/isni/0000000404811396 International Monetary Fund

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Tianxiao Zheng
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Series:
IMF Working Papers
Volume/Issue:
Volume 2024: Issue 170
Language:
English
Publication Date:
09 Aug 2024
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400284540.001
ISBN:
9798400284540
ISSN:
1018-5941
Pages:
32
Keywords:
Monetary Policy; Quantitative Easing; International Spillovers; ECB monetary policy tightening; ECB policy announcement; ECB spillover; ECB monetary policy shock; monetary policy spillover; ECB asset purchase portfolio; Spillovers; Exchange rate arrangements; Monetary tightening; Central bank policy rate; Exchange rates; Europe; Global; Eastern Europe
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We provide new evidence on the spillover effects of ECB monetary policy shocks to emerging European economies, using a combination of empirical methods and model-based simulations and focusing on spillovers from interest rate and balance sheet policies implemented by the ECB. We consider an event study set around the ECB policy announcement in June 2022 and also use local projections to estimate regional spillovers in a panel of 16 Emerging European countries spanning 1999 to 2022. Identifying ECB monetary policy shocks as the unexplained component of changes in the three-month Euribor futures rate, we find that ECB monetary policy tightening induces more than one-for-one changes in government bond yields in Emerging Europe, as well as sizable increases in sovereign spreads, domestic currency depreciations, and significantly lower output. Model simulations using a two-country DSGE calibrated to the euro area and its Eastern European neighbors reveal that a conventional tightening, achieved through interest rate increases, provides a more favorable inflation-output trade-off compared to balance sheet tightenings. The extent of spillovers from quantitative tightening depends on the speed of balance sheet reduction, and it is larger under a fixed exchange rate regime.
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