Asymptotic Analysis of Monetary Transmission Mechanism

Corporate Finance and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

We analyze the transmission effects of monetary policy in a general equilibrium model of the financial sector, with bank lending and securities markets. Bank lending is constrained by capital adequacy requirements, and asymmetric information adds a cost to outside bank equity capital. In our model, monetary policy does not affect bank lending through changes in bank liquidity; rather, it operat...

The Monetary Transmission Mechanism: An Empirical Framework

he purpose of this paper is to present a simple framework for analyzing the monetary transmission mechanism: the process through which monetary policy decisions are transmitted into changes in real GDP and inflation. There are, of course, many different views of the monetary transmission mechanism. These views differ in the emphasis they place on money, credit, interest rates, exchange rates, a...

Output Composition of Monetary Policy Transmission

This paper aims to investigate the role of each aggregate spending component in the monetary policy transmission in Indonesia. It assesses the relative strength of the role of each spending component in the monetary policy transmission. In so doing, this study employs the contribution analysis, which is calculated based on the cumulative impulse response of each component of GDP to a monetary p...

The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy : A Critical Review

Alternative Views of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism: What Difference Do They Make for Monetary Policy?

This paper examines how alternative views of the monetary transmission mechanism affect the choice of a monetary policy rule. The main finding is that many different structural models indicate that the same simple monetary policy rule—one in which the central bank’s target short-term interest rate reacts to inflation and to real output—would perform well. Such rules work well even in models whe...