{"title":"Uneven effects of monetary policy: Sectoral disparities in credit card spending","authors":"Hakan Yilmazkuday","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the effects of monetary policy on the credit card spending on different sectors. The investigation is based on a structural vector autoregression model, where sector-specific real credit card spending data (adjusted for inflation) representing an overall country, Türkiye, are used. The empirical results (in the long run) suggest that a positive shock to the monetary policy rate reduces real credit card spending in cars, health, insurance, and shopping in a statistically significant way, whereas it increases real credit card spending on airlines and travel. Monetary policy shocks contribute to the volatility of credit card spending by up to 36% for insurance, 26% for markets and shopping centers, and 22% for travel sectors, whereas this contribution is only about 3% for contractor services and about 4% for car rentals, jewelry, and casino sectors. It is implied that there are uneven effects of monetary policy across sector-specific credit card spendings. These results are robust to the consideration of changes in unemployment rate, inflation rate, nominal effective exchange rate, and the number of credit card transactions as well as alternative model specifications with different numbers of lags, different variables, and different estimation strategies. Important suggestions follow for monetary, fiscal, and macroprudential policies to mitigate the uneven effects of monetary policy across sectors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 4","pages":"Article 100181"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic inflation decomposition in a small open economy: Evidence from import price dynamics in Kazakhstan","authors":"Zhandos Ybrayev, Bauyrzhan Shamar, Kamilla Mamatova","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100179","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100179","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper empirically analyzes the key drivers of inflation in Kazakhstan by differentiating between demand and supply-driven factors contributing to headline inflation. Given that Kazakhstan is highly sensitive to adverse external fluctuations (due to its economic structure), our empirical strategy investigates asymmetric dynamics of prices of goods with high versus low degree of import share. Hence, we develop a methodology to determine the level of “importability” in certain consumption products, which serves as a proxy of vulnerability to external macroeconomic shocks. The results confirm our hypothesis that products with different degree of import content respond differently to major macroeconomic shocks. Consequently, we conclude that headline inflation in Kazakhstan is primarily impacted by supply-side factors, such as the direct transmission of exchange rate changes to prices of products with higher import shares (exchange rate pass-through) and a large component of inflation inertia. Differentiating and properly identifying inflation dynamics of the high-import-content and low-import-content goods have important implications for optimal monetary policy conduct in developing economies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 4","pages":"Article 100179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential impact of introducing a neutral positive countercyclical capital buffer in EU countries","authors":"Paweł Smaga","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The aim of this study is to assess the potential to introduce a positive neutral rate for the countercyclical capital buffer (nCCyB) at 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2% in 20 EU countries over the period 2014Q4 up to 2023Q3. Prudential data at country-level was used to estimate the level of banks' voluntary management buffers, which were found to be significant overall (although gradually decreasing) and enough to accommodate the introduction of the nCCyB. According to estimations, introduction of the nCCyB at those rates would have reduced banks’ management buffers on average by 6.5–26.0%. However, there is visible heterogeneity among EU countries. The resulting lowest decrease in capital headroom following the potential introduction of the nCCyB was recorded, among others, in Sweden, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Malta, Ireland, with the highest in Spain, Croatia, Greece, and Austria. However, the adoption of the nCCyB in recent years faces several hurdles, which constitute challenges for banks and policymakers alike.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 4","pages":"Article 100180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142530803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bank loan maturity and corporate investment","authors":"İbrahim Yarba, Burak Deniz","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100178","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100178","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study analyzes bank loan maturity and corporate investment linkage by using novel firm-level data covering the universe of all incorporated firms in Türkiye over the last decade. The results of the panel regression model with multi-dimensional fixed effects reveal that loan maturity has a significant positive association with investment, indicating that longer debt maturity fosters corporate investment. The results reveal that the positive linkage between longer debt maturity and investment is more pronounced for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This is also the case for young firms and firms with high growth opportunities. Considering the evidence provided in the literature that bank lending conditions, including maturity structure, are highly cyclical and vulnerable to financial conditions and economic policy uncertainties, our findings highlight the importance of reducing the policy uncertainties as well as the importance of policies that make equity financing more attractive and deepen the capital markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 4","pages":"Article 100178"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142437797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matheus Fellipe de Oliveira Santos, Rafael Morais de Souza, Wilson Luiz Rotatori Corrêa
{"title":"Singular spectrum analysis to estimate core inflation in Brazil","authors":"Matheus Fellipe de Oliveira Santos, Rafael Morais de Souza, Wilson Luiz Rotatori Corrêa","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100177","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100177","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents a set of new core inflation measures for Brazil based on the Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA) method. The measures are based on the official target used in the Brazilian inflation targeting regime. The period of analysis ranges from the beginning of the inflation targeting regime in 1999 and 2021. The SSA measures were compared to the inflation core ones used by the Central Bank of Brazil, through the evaluation of unbiasedness, short-term adjustment dynamics and predictive ability. The measures estimated by SSA meet the desired properties and have a greater predictive capacity than the other inflation cores.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 4","pages":"Article 100177"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070124000313/pdfft?md5=ae7d0598c63e0d8da569ae0721709004&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070124000313-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142270959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The importance of external shocks and global monetary conditions for a small-open economy: The case of Türkiye","authors":"Gülnihal Tüzün","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100170","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100170","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The channels driving the international macroeconomic and financial shock transmission is important for policy makers for the evaluation of the macroeconomic models and the appropriate policy design. The interdependencies between countries have a significant role on the international spillovers of macroeconomic shocks on the emerging market economies. The purpose of this study is to assess how do the domestic and foreign shocks affect the fundamental macroeconomic variables of a small-open economy, and in particular Türkiye. The domestic supply, demand and monetary policy shocks and their global counterparts are estimated by employing a Bayesian Structural VAR model identified with sign and zero restrictions. After a US monetary tightening shock, the results demonstrate an appreciation of the US Dollar against Turkish lira, a rise in the domestic consumer price level, a contractionary monetary policy response accompanied by a fall in the real output level. This reaction is a strong evidence of the existence of a global interest rate contagion present in the international macroeconomics literature.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 3","pages":"Article 100170"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070124000246/pdfft?md5=3266e3072f94b233fc61aa01aadbceb6&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070124000246-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142006375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sabri Burak Arzova , Bertaç Şakir Şahin , Hasan Murat Ertuğrul , Onur Polat
{"title":"Dynamic interconnectedness of economic confidence, energy prices, and interest rates: Insights from the euro area","authors":"Sabri Burak Arzova , Bertaç Şakir Şahin , Hasan Murat Ertuğrul , Onur Polat","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100169","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100169","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This work examines the time-varying interlinkages among economic confidence, energy prices, geopolitical stress, and short/long-term interest rates in the Euro Area. Our research meticulously explores the interplay between economic confidence and various determinants, including financial indicators, geopolitical stress incidents, and energy prices. Employing innovative approaches such as the time-varying parameter vector autoregression (TVP-VAR) time and frequency-domain connectedness, we uncover the nuanced relationships between economic confidence, financial indicators, and energy prices. We illuminate the systemic nature of shock transmission in the Euro Area, identifying key net transmitters and recipients of shocks, with short-term interconnectedness emerging as a dominant feature, especially during pivotal events such as the global financial crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and geopolitical conflicts. Our empirical findings can be summarized as follows: First, both the time and frequency-domain connectedness indexes correctly associate with major financial/geopolitical events. Second, BCI and CCI respond to the GFC asymmetrically. Third, Brent and short/long-term interest rates are the net transmitters of shocks on average. Fourth, there is a considerable augmentation in return spillovers during the period characterized by the pandemic crisis compared to the GFC. Finally, our findings for frequency-dependent connectedness networks indicate that the market is particularly susceptible to short-term shocks. This study has significant ramifications for investors, market players, and policymakers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 3","pages":"Article 100169"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070124000234/pdfft?md5=d367147b16b54482a51ae88800dbc1b8&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070124000234-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141948346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julián Llorent-Jurado, José Antonio Ordaz-Sanz, María del Carmen Melgar-Hiraldo, Flor María Guerrero-Casas
{"title":"A review of the discussion proposal on changes to the EU-wide stress test","authors":"Julián Llorent-Jurado, José Antonio Ordaz-Sanz, María del Carmen Melgar-Hiraldo, Flor María Guerrero-Casas","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100161","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In 2020, the European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a public consultation on future changes to the European Union wide stress test (EUWST). The EBA proposes a dual approach across four broad criteria of relevance, comparability, transparency, and cost efficiency: a supervisory leg as the basis for Pillar 2 Guidance decisions and a bank leg to provide information and foster market discipline. Prior to new methodological proposals, an accurate global and summarized overview of what has been accomplished so far is required. This paper presents a synthetic review of the EBA's vision for the EUWST's future and feedback review.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 3","pages":"Article 100161"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070124000155/pdfft?md5=b5faae9be69837a1f15c8f5a78c82416&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070124000155-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141484807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Julián Llorent-Jurado, Ignacio Contreras, Flor María Guerrero-Casas
{"title":"A proposal for a composite indicator based on ratios (CIBOR) to compare the evolution of Spanish financial institutions","authors":"Julián Llorent-Jurado, Ignacio Contreras, Flor María Guerrero-Casas","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100160","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper introduces a new Financial Stress Indicator (FSI) named Composite Indicator Based on Ratios (CIBOR). This paper discusses the importance of monitoring the quality of loans and capital, operational performance, profitability, and liquidity of financial institutions to prevent systemic risks in the financial system. To address this, CIBOR is proposed as a means to indirectly capture the instability of a financial entity by identifying potential tensions and their underlying causes. Specifically, we compare the results for 25 financial entities operating in the Spanish banking market, analysing the evolution since 2018 to 2022. CIBOR permits a straight interpretation of the variations between periods and a dynamic analysis that not only measures the variation between the ratios over time, but also identifies the sources of such variations: variations derived from changes in sub-indicators, changes stemming from the oscillation of the baseline, and the impact of the selection of weights in the construction of the composite indicator.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 3","pages":"Article 100160"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1303070124000143/pdfft?md5=e1aa4e0af3668895450cef9ed40b404d&pid=1-s2.0-S1303070124000143-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141324893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating time-varying potential output and NAIRU using a multivariate filter for Türkiye","authors":"Mert Gökcü","doi":"10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cbrev.2024.100158","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper extends the multivariate filter approach for estimating potential output and NAIRU developed for Türkiye by integrating the capacity utilization block into the model. The model gives more negative estimates of the output gap and smaller estimates of NAIRU in recession periods compared to estimates without a capacity utilization block. In addition, applying an alternative model including a broader-defined unemployment rate to Turkish data results in significantly less negative output gap and unemployment gap compared to estimates with the original unemployment rate. The idea of traditional unemployment rate measurements may not adequately capture the cycle conditions of labor market is brought up in this extension.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":43998,"journal":{"name":"Central Bank Review","volume":"24 2","pages":"Article 100158"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S130307012400012X/pdfft?md5=72bd8579b6a14a0da1ec7ab3f773aff6&pid=1-s2.0-S130307012400012X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141290853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}