Estimating heterogeneous panel VAR models, this paper empirically investigates how effective macroprudential policy is in curbing mortgage loans and house prices. The sign restriction approach is used to identify two fundamental policy shocks - monetary policy and macroprudential policy shocks....

This working paper was written by Soyoung Kim (Seoul National University), Seri Shim (Bank of Korea) and Hongyi Chen (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research).This paper investigates the effects and conduct of macroprudential policies in China in comparison with those of monetary...

We investigate U.S. monetary and fiscal policy interactions in a regime-switching model of monetary and fiscal policy rules where policy mixes are determined by a latent bivariate autoregressive process consisting of monetary and fiscal policy regime factors, each determining a respective policy...

This study investigates whether and how financial technologies (FinTech) influence the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission. We use an interacted panel vector autoregression model to explore how the effects of monetary policy shocks change with regional-level FinTech adoption. Results...

This study investigates whether and how financial technologies (FinTech) influencethe effectiveness of monetary policy transmission. We examine regional-level FinTech adoption and use an interacted panel vector autoregression model to explore how the effects of monetary policy shocks change with...

This work investigates effects of conventional monetary policy and central bank information shocks from monetary policy announcements on the U.S. economy. We identify the surprises caused by changes in target rate and central bank’s private information embedded in high frequency exchange rate...

We disentangle the effects of monetary policy announcements on real economic variables into an interest rate shock component and a central bank information shock component. We identify both components using changes in interest rate futures and in exchange rates around monetary policy...