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

Matteo Ciccarelli and Alessandro Rebucci ()

No 2002/054, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: WP; transmission mechanism; Bayesian estimation; European monetary policy; Gibbs sampling; Heterogeneity; transmission mechanism of monetary policy; monetary policy shock; impact of monetary policy; monetary policy parameter; posterior distribution; time series; monetary policy objective; parameters of the transmission mechanism; Monetary transmission mechanism; Exchange rates; Econometric models; Short term interest rates; Monetary policy instruments; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42
Date: 2002-03-01
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