Unconventional monetary policies and the corporate bond market
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The paper uses a reduced-form vector autoregressive framework to study the effects of quantitative easing and operation ‘‘twist’’, as well as a conventional monetary expansion, on corporate bond yields and spreads. We construct ratingand maturity-based weekly bond portfolios using TRACE and simulate monetary policies as shocks to the Treasury yield curve. We find that none of the policies can persistently lower corporate spreads, and that operation twist is the only policy capable of lowering corporate yields. This latter finding can be accounted for by the operation twist’s ability to keep the monetary base constant and, therefore, to flatten the riskless yield curve without generating inflationary expectations. 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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