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Financial markets and legal challenges to unconventional monetary policy

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  • Griller, Stefan
  • Huber, Florian
  • Pfarrhofer, Michael

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This paper studies the empirical effects of legal challenges to monetary policy. Several policy measures of the European Central Bank have come under scrutiny before national courts and the European Court of Justice. These lawsuits have the potential to impact the scope and flexibility of central bank policies with important consequences for the economy. The number of relevant legal challenges is small and exact timestamps are often not available. Hence, we develop an econometric approach that searches for minimum variance regimes which we use to isolate and measure the effects of the rulings. Our results suggest that legal rulings addressing central bank policies have a significant effect on financial markets and can be linked to monetary policy uncertainty shocks.

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  • Griller, Stefan & Huber, Florian & Pfarrhofer, Michael, 2024. "Financial markets and legal challenges to unconventional monetary policy," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eecrev:v:163:y:2024:i:c:s0014292124000096
    DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2024.104680
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    Keywords

    Local projections; Euro area; Finite mixture models; Factor models; Identification through heteroskedasticity;
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    JEL classification:

    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • K00 - Law and Economics - - General - - - General (including Data Sources and Description)

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