Unconventional Monetary Policy

Marco J. Lombardi · Feng Zhu

This 2018 International Journal of Central Banking paper by Marco J. Lombardi and Feng Zhu proposes a "shadow policy rate" for U.S.

Benjamín García · Arsenios Skaperdas

This paper constructs a new measure of political pressure on the Federal Reserve from textual analysis of Fed Chairs' testimonies at Humphrey-Hawkins congressional hearings, and documents that the use …

Stefania D'Amico · Iryna Kaminska

Using security-level data on individual corporate bond prices and the Bank of England's published purchase quantities across its gilt purchase programs (QE1: £200bn, QE2: £125bn, QE3: £50bn, QE4: …

Ben S. Bernanke · Vincent R. Reinhart · Brian P. Sack

This 2004 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity paper by Ben Bernanke, Vincent Reinhart, and Brian Sack asks whether "nonstandard" monetary policies can still work once the short-term policy rate is …

Jens H. E. Christensen · Simon T. Hetland

The paper introduces the concept of "passive quantitative easing" (passive QE): a deliberate reduction in government debt issuance that lowers anticipated future bond supply and reduces long-term …

Wenxin Du · Kristin Forbes · Matthew Luzzetti

Drawing on the recent experience of seven advanced-economy central banks, this paper offers the first cross-country assessment of quantitative tightening (QT) — the unwinding of bond holdings …

Anusha Chari · Karlye Dilts Stedman · Christian Lundblad

Identifying US monetary policy shocks from daily moves in five-year Treasury futures around FOMC announcements, this paper shows that during the unconventional-policy years those shocks largely …

Joseph Gagnon · Matthew Raskin · Julie Remache · Brian Sack

This 2011 International Journal of Central Banking paper by Gagnon, Raskin, Remache, and Sack provides the founding empirical assessment of the Federal Reserve's first large-scale asset purchase …

David Bügel · Albert Hidalgo · Ralph Luetticke

Asking whether unconventional monetary policy works differently from an interest-rate cut has been hard to answer because the two kinds of policy have been measured with different tools, so any …

John H. Cochrane

Using the government-debt valuation equation -- the requirement that the real value of outstanding government debt equal the present value of future primary surpluses -- this paper argues that after …