The Financial and Macroeconomic Effects of OMT Announcements

Carlo Altavilla, Domenico Giannone and Michele Lenza

Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: This study evaluates the macroeconomic effects of Outright Monetary Transaction (OMT)announcements by the European Central Bank (ECB). Using high-frequency data, we find that OMTannouncements decreased the Italian and Spanish 2-year government bond yields by about 2percentage points, while leaving unchanged the bond yields of the same maturity in Germany andFrance. These results are used to calibrate a scenario in a multi-country model describing the macrofinanciallinkages in France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. The scenario analysis suggests that thereduction in bond yields due to OMT announcements is associated with a significant increase in realactivity, credit, and prices in Italy and Spain with relatively muted spillovers in France and Germany.

Keywords: outright monetary transactions; event study; news; multi-country vector autoregressive model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E47 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 p.
Date: 2014-06
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