The transmission mechanism of unconventional monetary policy

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...

Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy

The authors extend a standard New Keynesian model to incorporate heterogeneity in spending opportunities and two sources of (potentially time-varying) credit spreads and to allow a role for the central bank’s balance sheet in equilibrium determination. They use the model to investigate the implications of imperfect financial intermediation for familiar monetary policy prescriptions, and to cons...

Remarks on Unconventional Monetary Policy

Figure 1 displays the facts that motivate this discussion. Interest rate spreads increased somewhat at the start of the 2007 recession and then widened substantially after August 2008. The Federal Reserve initiated a program of unconventional monetary policy in the fall of 2007, by purchasing privately issued assets and by permitting banks to use privately issued assets as collateral at the dis...

Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Dollar: Conventional Signs, Unconventional Magnitudes

We examine the effects of unconventional monetary policy surprises on the value of the dollar using high-frequency intraday data and contrast them with the effects of conventional policy tools. Identifying monetary policy surprises from changes in interest rate future prices in narrow windows around policy announcements, we find that monetary policy surprises since the Federal Reserve lowered i...

The Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy : A Critical Review