Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/25345 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2009,029
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
Controllability of longer-term interest rates requires that the persistence of their deviations from the central bank's policy rate (i.e. the policy spreads) remains sufficiently low. This paper applies fractional integration techniques to assess the persistence of policy spreads of euro area money market rates along the yield curve. Independently from anticipated policy rate changes, there is strong evidence for all maturities that policy spreads exhibit long memory. We show that recent changes in the operational framework and the communication strategy of the European Central Bank have significantly decreased the persistence of euro area policy spreads and, thus, have enhanced the central bank's influence on longer-term money market rates.
Subjects: 
Long memory and fractional integration
controllability and persistence of interest rates
new operational framework of the ECB
JEL: 
C22
E43
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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