Interest rates, prices and liquidity
Subtitle: lessons from the financial crisis
By: edited by Jagjit S. Chadha, Sean Holly
Series: Macroeconomic policy making
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781107014732
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Money & Monetary Policy; Interest rates; Monetary policy; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009
Description: "Many of the assumptions that underpin mainstream macroeconomic models have been challenged as a result of the traumatic events of the recent financial crisis. Thus, until recently, it was widely agreed that although the stock of money had a role to play, in practice it could be ignored as long as we used short-term nominal interest rates as the instrument of policy because money and other credit markets would clear at the given policy rate. However, very early on in the financial crisis interest rates effectively hit zero percent and so central banks had to resort to a wholly new set of largely untested instruments to restore order, including quantitative easing and the purchase of toxic financial assets. This book brings together contributions from economists working in academia, financial markets and central banks to assess the effectiveness of these policy instruments and explore what lessons have so far been learned"--

"We assess recent developments in monetary policy practice following the .nancial crisis drawing on papers from a specially convened conference in March 2010. In particular, we consider why central banks throughout the world have injected substantial quantitites of liquidity into the .nancial system and seen their balance sheets expand to multiples of GDP. We outline the theoretical rationale for balance sheet operations: (i) portfolio balance of the non-bank .nancial sector; (ii) an o$set for the zero bound; (iii) signalling mechanism about medium term in.ation expectations and (iv) the alleviation of the government.s budget constraint. We brie.y outline the recent experience with QE and draw a distinction between liquidity and macroeconomic stabilisation operations"--
Notes: Papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England in Mar. 2010.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. New instruments of monetary policy Jagjit S. Chadha and Sean Holly; 2. Liquidity and monetary policy Douglas Gale; 3. Interest rate policies and the stability of banking systems Hans Gersbach and Jan Wenzelberger; 4. Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's q Marcus Miller and John Driffill; 5. Asset purchase policies and portfolio effects: a DSGE analysis Richard Harrison; 6. Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK Stefania Villa and Jing Yang; 7. Unconventional monetary policy, central bank balance sheets and long term forward rates Sharon Kozicki, Eric Santor and Lena Suchanek; 8. Non-standard monetary policy measures and monetary developments Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin; 9. Quantitative easing: one year on Spencer Dale; 10. What saved the banks: unconventional monetary or fiscal policy? Mike Wickens; 11. Non-conventional monetary policies: three views from the DSGE literature Evren Caglar, Jack Meaning, Alex Waters, James Warren and Jagjit Chadha.