Interest rate swaps and the transmission mechanism of monetary policy: A quantile connectedness approach

Global Knowledge, Local Solutions: Interest Rate and Monetary Policy

Interest Rate Swaps: a Managerial Compensation Approach

The market for interest rate swaps has grown consistently since its inception. Swaps involve “swapping” fixed interest rate debt for variable rate debt. We explain this growth using a game theoretic model. We focus on managerial and owner compensation differences under swaps and open market restructuring. We conclude that swaps occur because the swap market incorporates information about the fi...

Monetary Policy Committees and Interest Rate Smoothing

We extend the New Keynesian Monetary Policy literature relaxing the assumption that the decisions are taken by a single policymaker, considering instead that monetary policy decisions are taken collectively in a committee. We introduce a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), whose members have different preferences between output and inflation variability and have to vote on the level of the interes...

Interest Rate Rules and the Credit Channel of Monetary Policy Transmission

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with the banking system and the reserves market, where the central bank a¤ects the federal funds rate through open market operations. We show that when the coe¢ cient that measures the response of the federal funds rate to the in‡ation rate falls below a threshold value, which is very small, the economy will have two steady states, where the low-e...

The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy : A Critical Review