Normative dimensions of central banking: How the guardians of financial markets affect justice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dietsch
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Central Banking ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Introductory Section ◽  
The Impact

Monetary policy, and the response it elicits from financial markets, raises normative questions. This chapter, building on an introductory section on the objectives and instruments of monetary policy, analyzes two such questions. First, it assesses the impact of monetary policy on inequality and argues that the unconventional policies adopted in the wake of the financial crisis exacerbate inequalities in income and wealth. Depending on the theory of justice one holds, this impact is problematic. Should monetary policy be sensitive to inequalities and, if so, how? Second, the chapter argues that the leverage that financial markets have today over the monetary policy agenda undermines democratic legitimacy.

scholarly journals The Effect of FOMC Votes on Financial Markets

2019 ◽  
Vol 101 (5) ◽  
pp. 921-932
Author(s):  
Carlos Madeira ◽  
João Madeira
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Open Market ◽  
Federal Open Market Committee ◽  
2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
Treasury Securities ◽  
Stock Market Reaction

This paper shows that since votes of members of the Federal Open Market Committee have been included in press statements, stock prices increase after the announcement when votes are unanimous but fall when dissent (which typically is due to preference for higher interest rates) occurs. This pattern started prior to the 2007–2008 financial crisis. The differences in stock market reaction between unanimity and dissent remain, even controlling for the stance of monetary policy and consecutive dissent. Statement semantics also do not seem to explain the documented effect. We find no differences between unanimity and dissent with respect to impact on market risk and Treasury securities.

scholarly journals The impact of the financial crisis on earnings management: Empirical evidence from Italian and Spanish listed companies

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco De Luca ◽  
Francesco Paolone
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Publicly Traded ◽  
Publicly Traded Companies ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Security Offerings ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Giving Bad News

Our study adopts a reliable and widely acknowledged model to detect accounts manipulation in order to assess the impact of the financial crisis on Italian and Spanish listed companies’ propensity to manage their earnings. The analysis is conducted on 565 publicly traded companies on the Italian and Spanish financial markets during the time period 2005-2013. We find a lower propensity to manipulate earnings in both countries during the pre-crisis period (2005-2008) as suggested by a decrease in the number of high-risk manipulators until 2008 included. With the spread of the financial crisis, companies become more manipulators. We believe that the reason for this is to avoid giving bad news to markets, investors, and lenders after that the crisis may have impacted too negatively on firms’ performance indicators and financial equilibrium. Our empirical results provide various implications for further studies related to managements’ incentives concurrently with security offerings.

scholarly journals Monetary Policy Surprises over Time

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
pp. 1840002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcello Pericoli ◽  
Giovanni Veronese
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Yield Curve ◽  
Sovereign Spreads ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Term Premia ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

We document how the impact of monetary surprises on euro-area and US financial markets has changed from 1999 to date. We use a definition of monetary policy surprises, which singles out movements in the long-end of the yield curve — rather than those changing nearby futures on the central bank reference rates. By focusing only on this component of monetary policy, our results are more comparable over time. We find a hump-shaped response of the yield curve to monetary policy surprises, both in the pre-crisis period and since 2013. During the crisis years, Fed path-surprises, largely through their effect on term premia, account for the impact on interest rates, which is found to be increasing in tenor. In the euro area, the path-surprises reflect the shifts in sovereign spreads, and have a large impact on the entire constellation of interest rates, exchange rates and equity markets.

The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 437-464
Author(s):  
Carlos García-Rivero ◽  
Hennie Kotzé
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
General Welfare ◽  
Recent Financial Crisis ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Analysis of democratic legitimacy has generally focused on two different perspectives. Minimalist definitions of democracy focus on procedures, liberties and rights, whereas substantive definitions focus on how such a regime improves citizens’ general welfare. Democracies have enjoyed decades of prosperity. Hence, the impact of a lack of economic wellbeing has been difficult to analyse and, consequently, the weight of substantive issues in democratic legitimacy remains unexplored. However, the impact of the recent financial crisis allows us to measure how elites and citizenry of seven countries on four different continents evaluated the importance of political versus economic issues for the level of democracy in their countries. The analysis is based on public and political elite surveys conducted in 2006 and in 2013.

International Trade Relations and the Contagious Effects of the Asian Financial Crisis

2000 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 367-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunchi Wu
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Asian Financial Crisis ◽  
Trade Relations ◽  
Fundamental Causes ◽  
Asian Economies ◽  
Trade Relationship ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This paper examines the trade relationship among Pacific Rim Asian economies and the U.S. with an attempt at understanding the fundamental causes for the contagious effects of the Asian financial crisis. East Asian economies trade extensively among themselves and with the U.S. This great dependence on foreign trade and investments has considerably increased the instability of the economies and financial markets in this region. It is found that the impact of the financial crisis on a domestic economy is positively correlated with its trade relationship with foreign economies. The importance of the trade relationship is manifested in the financial markets. Results show that the returns and volatility of a stock market are significantly influenced by the markets of its major trading partners. Also, foreign exchange markets often significantly interact with stock markets, especially following the Asian financial crisis. Furthermore, the Japanese and Hong Kong markets, instead of the U.S. market, had a dominating effect on East Asian financial markets during the period of the financial crisis.

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