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Dirk Bleich, Ralf Fendel and Jan-Christoph Rülke
 
''Monetary Policy and Stock Market Volatility''
( 2013, Vol. 33 No.3 )
 
 
We estimate forward-looking interest rate reaction functions in the spirit of Taylor (1993) for four major central banks augmented by implicit volatilities of stock market indices to proxy financial market stress. Our results suggest that the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve Bank and the European Central Bank systematically respond to an increase of the implicit volatility by a decrease in the interest rate. We take our results as strong evidence that central banks use interest rates to stabilize financial markets in periods of financial market stress.
 
 
Keywords: Monetary policy; Taylor rule; Asset prices
JEL: E4 - Money and Interest Rates: General
E5 - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
 
Manuscript Received : Nov 05 2012 Manuscript Accepted : Jul 11 2013

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