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Micro Approaches to Foreign Exchange Determination
(Working Papers;5/2011, Working paper, 2011)Micro-based exchange-rate research examines the determination and behavior of spot exchange rates in an environment that replicates the key features of trading in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Traditional macro ... -
How Do Banks’ Funding Costs Affect Interest Margins?
(Working Papers;9/2011, Working paper, 2011)We use a dynamic factor model and a detailed panel data set with quarterly accounts data on all Norwegian banks to study the effects of banks’ funding costs on their retail rates. Banks’ funds are categorized into two ... -
Foreign Exchange Market Structure, Players and Evolution
(Working Papers;10/2011, Working paper, 2011)Electronic trading has transformed foreign exchange markets over the past decade, and the pace of innovation only accelerates. This formerly opaque market is now fairly transparent and transaction costs are only a fraction ... -
Sunshine Trading: Flashes of Trading Intent at the Nasdaq
(Working Papers;17/2011, Working paper, 2011)We use the introduction and the subsequent removal of the flash order facility (an actionable indication of interest, IOI) from Nasdaq as a natural experiment to investigate the impact of voluntary disclosure of trading ... -
Forecasting the Intraday Market Price of Money
(Working Papers;6/2011, Working paper, 2011)Market efficiency hypothesis suggests a zero level for the intraday interest rate. However, a liquidity crisis introduces frictions related to news, which can cause an upward jump of the intraday rate. This paper documents ... -
Where It All Began: Lending of Last Resort and the Bank of England During the Overend-Gurney Panic of 1866
(Working Papers;3/2011, Working paper, 2011)The National Monetary Commission was deeply concerned with importing best practice. One important focus was the connection between the money market and international trade. It was said that Britain’s lead in the market for ... -
Investment Shocks and Macroeconomic Co-Movement
(Working Papers;14/2011, Working paper, 2011)Recent studies find that shocks to the marginal efficiency of investment are a main driver of business cycles. Yet, they struggle to explain why consumption co-moves with real variables such as investment and output, which ... -
Independence Within Government. A Comparative Perspective on Central Banking in Norway 1945-1970
(Working Papers;20/2011, Working paper, 2011)This article surveys the degree of central bank independence in Norway between 1945 and 1970. By comparing the developments in Norway with those of Sweden and the United Kingdom, it is shown that the Norwegian central bank ... -
New Perspectives on Depreciation Shocks as a Source of Business Cycle Fluctuations
(Working Papers;2/2011, Working paper, 2011)In this paper we study the transmission for capital depreciation shocks. The existing literature in the Real Business Cycle tradition has concluded that these shocks are irrelevant for business cycle fluctuations. We show ... -
Asset Pricing with Concentrated Ownership of Capital
(Working Papers;18/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper investigates how concentrated ownership of capital influences the pricing of risky assets in a production economy. The model is designed to approximate the skewed distribution of wealth and income in U.S. data. ... -
The World Is Not Enough! Small Open Economies and Regional Dependence
(Working Papers;16/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper bridges the new open economy factor augmented VAR (FAVAR) studies with the recent findings in the business cycle synchronization literature emphasizing the importance of regional factors. That is, we estimate ... -
The Hidden Costs of Hidden Debt
(Working Papers;22/2011, Working paper, 2011)We report evidence that salience may have economically significant effects on homeowners’ borrowing behavior, through a bias in favour of less salient but more costly loans. Survey evidence corroborates the existence of ... -
“Interest Rate Trap”, or: Why Does the Central Bank Keep the Policy Rate Too Low for Too Long Time?
(Working Papers;12/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper provides a framework for modeling the risk-taking channel of monetary policy, the mechanism how financial intermediaries’ incentives for liquidity transformation are affected by the central bank’s reaction to ... -
The Promise and Performance of the Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort 1914-1933
(Working Papers;1/2011, Working paper, 2011)This paper examines the origins and early performance of the Federal Reserve as lender of last resort. The Fed was established to overcome the problems of the National Banking era, in particular an “inelastic” currency and ... -
The Impact of House Prices on Household Debt When Controlling for Home Ownership
(Working Papers;8/2011, Working paper, 2011)We analyze the effect of house price changes on debt secured on dwellings in Norway. To this end, we use both macro time series and micro panel data. With the intention of being both a cross-check and motivation for the ... -
Implications of Insights from Behavioral Economics for Macroeconomic Models
(Working Papers;12/2012, Working paper, 2012)The last 20 years, the importance of a number of behavioral features has been widely accepted within economics, and they are now regularly included in standard macro models. Where has this development led us? I argue that ... -
Central Banks Under German Rule During World War II: The Case of Norway
(Working Papers;2/2012, Working paper, 2012)Until the German invasion of Norway 9 April 1940 the Norwegian central bank had been one of the most independent in Western Europe. This article investigates the agency of the Norwegian central bank during the German ... -
The Relation Between Banks' Funding Costs, Retail Rates and Loan Volumes: An Analysis of Norwegian Bank Micro Data
(Working Papers;17/2012, Working paper, 2012)We use a dynamic factor model and a detailed panel data set for six Norwegian bank groups to analyze i) how funding costs affect retail loan rates and ii) how retail rate differences between banks affect market shares. The ... -
Do Central Banks Respond to Exchange Rate Movements? a Markov-Switching Structural Investigation
(Working Papers;24/2013, Working paper, 2013)Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? According to Lubik and Schorfheide (2007) who estimate structural general equilibrium models with monetary policy rules, the answer is "Yes, some do". However, their ... -
The Influence of the Taylor Rule on US Monetary Policy
(Working Papers;4/2013, Working paper, 2013)We analyze the influence of the Taylor rule on US monetary policy by estimating the policy preferences of the Fed within a DSGE framework. The policy preferences are represented by a standard loss function, extended with ...