Volume 19, Issue 2

Share Buybacks, Monetary Policy and the Cost of Debt

Assia Elgouacem and Riccardo Zago

Macroeconomic Surprises and the Demand for Information about Monetary Policy

Peter Tillmann

Which Monetary Shocks Matter in Small Open Economies? Evidence from Canada

Jongrim Ha and Inhwan So

Shifts in ECB Communication: A Textual Analysis of the Press Conference

Justyna Klejdysz and Robin L. Lumsdaine

Central Banks in Parliaments: A Text Analysis of the Parliamentary Hearings of the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, and the Federal Reserve

Nicolò Fraccaroli, Alessandro Giovannini, Jean-François Jamet and Eric Persson

The Rise in Inequality, the Decline in the Natural Interest Rate, and the Increase in Household Debt

Ansgar Rannenberg

Making Waves: Monetary Policy and Its Asymmetric Transmission in a Globalized World

Michele Ca' Zorzi, Luca Dedola, Georgios Georgiadis, Marek Jarociński, Livio Stracca and Georg Strasser

Central Bank Credibility and Monetary Policy

Kwangyong Park

After the Storm: Natural Disasters and Bank Solvency

Dieter Gramlich, Thomas Walker, Yunfei Zhao and Mohammad Bitar

On the Structural Determinants of Growth-at-Risk

Martin Gächter, Martin Geiger and Elias Hasler