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The Narrow Channel of Quantitative Easing : Evidence from YCC Down Under

Lucca, David O.; Wright, Jonathan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the recent Australian experience with yield curve control (YCC) of government bonds as perhaps the best evidence of how this policy might work in other developed economies. We interpret the evidence with a simple model in which YCC affects prices of both government and other bonds via...

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The Macroeconomic Effects of the Federal Reserve's Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies

Swanson, Eric T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

I separately identify and estimate the effects of the Federal Reserve's federal funds rate, forward guidance, and large-scale asset purchase (LSAP) policies on the U.S. economy. I extend the high-frequency identification strategy of Bauer and Swanson (2023b) for monetary policy VARs by allowing...

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Monetary Versus Macroprudential Policies : Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report

Aikman, David - 2016

We have entered a world of conjoined monetary and macroprudential policies. But can they function smoothly in tandem, and with what effects? Since this policy cocktail has not been seen for decades, the empirical evidence is almost non-existent. We can only fix this shortcoming in a historical...

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Quantitative Easing : A Rationale and Some Evidence from Japan

Wieland, Volker - 2009

of recent announcements regarding direct asset purchases by the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the U.S. Federal … Reserve and the European Central Bank. Empirical evidence from the previous period of quantitative easing in Japan between … 2001 and 2006 is presented. During this earlier period the Bank of Japan was able to expand the monetary base very quickly …

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Implementation of Monetary Policy : How Do Central Banks Set Interest Rates?

Friedman, Benjamin M. - 2010

-system, or Japan. Structural estimates of banks' reserve demand, at a frequency corresponding to the required reserve maintenance … period, show no interest elasticity for the U.S. or the Euro-system (but some elasticity for Japan). The chapter next …

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What about Japan?

Chien, YiLi; Cole, Harold L.; Lustig, Hanno - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Japan's low-rate policies on its government and households. Because of the duration mismatch on the government balance sheet …

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The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates : Channels and Implications for Policy

Krishnamurthy, Arvind - 2011

We evaluate the effect of the Federal Reserve's purchase of long-term Treasuries and other long-term bonds ("QE1" in 2008-2009 and "QE2" in 2010-2011) on interest rates. Using an event-study methodology we reach two main conclusions. First, it is inappropriate to focus only on Treasury rates as...

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Living Up to Expectations : Central Bank Credibility, the Effectiveness of Forward Guidance, and Inflation Dynamics Post-Global Financial Crisis

Cole, Stephen J.; Martínez-García, Enrique; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

, and other major advanced economies have similar levels of credibility (albeit far from full credibility); however, Japan …

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Measuring Central Bank Communication : An Automated Approach with Application to FOMC Statements

Lucca, David O. - 2009

We present a new automated, objective and intuitive scoring technique to measure the content of central bank communication about future interest rate decisions based on information from the Internet and news sources. We apply the methodology to statements released by the Federal Open Market...

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Negative Interest Rate Policy and the Yield Curve

Wu, Jing Cynthia - 2018

We evaluate the implications of the ECB's negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on the yield curve. To capture various shapes of the short end of the yield curve induced by the NIRP, we introduce two policy indicators, which summarize the immediate and longer-horizon future monetary policy...

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