infonet-economy

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2020COM003.

We study the tightness of the link between U.S. monetary and macroeconomic communication events and the exchange rate movements against the USD of four major currencies - the euro, the Swiss franc, the Brazilian real and the Mexican peso - since the global financial crisis (GFC). We find three main results. Approximately 20 percent of the U.S. communications events were associated...

We analyze the economic impact of central banks sensed by business executives in a sample of 61 countries from 1998 to 2016. Based on a survey conducted by the Institute for Management Development (IMD), we find compelling evidence that intensive central bank communication worsens the perceived impact. During the global financial crisis (GFC), this effect became even stronger. In...

Bolli, Thomas; Caves, Katherine M.; Pusterla, Filippo; Rageth, Ladina; Renold, Ursula; Sritharan, Aranya; Trachsel Díaz-Tejeiro, Sandra

Unconventional monetary policies have sometimes raised inflation-related fears that have not materialized. Switzerland presents an interesting case, as the central bank reacted to an appreciating currency by injecting Swiss francs through foreign exchange interventions, and bank lending increased considerably throughout the financial crisis. The low inflation that occurred after the...

Gittler, Thomas; Scholze, Stephan; Rupenyan-Vasileva, Alisa Bohos; Wegener, Konrad

Möhring, Niklas; Dalhaus, Tobias; Enjolras, Geoffroy; Finger, Robert

In: Logistics, 2020, vol. 4, no. 3, p. 21 p