The current mainstream approach to monetary policy in the United States is based on the new Keynesian model and is expressed in terms of the federal funds rate. It ignores the role of financial intermediary leverage (or collateral rates). But as the federal funds rate has reached the zero lower...

In this paper, we use a bivariate structural VAR to investigate risk spillovers from the cryptocurrency market to standard financial markets. We investigate the effects of cryptocurrency shocks on key financial markets, including the stock, bond, gold, and foreign exchange markets. The results...