One Money, Many Markets

Wednesday 1st September 2021
Journal of the European Economic Association
Corsetti, G., Duarte, J. B. and Mann, S.
We study the transmission of monetary shocks across euro-area countries using a dynamic factor model and high-frequency identification. We develop a methodology to assess the degree of heterogeneity, which we find to be low in financial variables and output, but significant in consumption, consumer prices, and variables related to local housing and labor markets. Building a small open economy model featuring a housing sector and calibrating it to Spain, we show that varying the share of adjustable-rate mortgages and loan-to-value ratios explains up to one-third of the cross-country heterogeneity in the response of output and private consumption.
Keywords
Monetary Policy
High-Frequency Identification
Monetary Union
Housing Market
Loan-to-value Ratio
Adjustable Mortgage Rates
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Themes
transmission