Interest rates, prices and liquidity : lessons from the financial crisis / edited by Jagjit S. Chadha, Sean Holly.

Contributor(s): Chadha, Jagjit | Holly, Sean
Language: English Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, c2011Description: 1 online resource (xi, 280 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139044233Subject(s): Interest rates | Monetary policy | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 339.04 Online resources: Full text available at Cambridge Online Library Click here to view
Contents:
New instruments of monetary policy / Jagjit S. Chadha and Sean Holly -- Liquidity and monetary policy / Douglas Gale -- Interest rate policies and stability of banking systems / Hans Gersbach and Jan Wenzelberger -- Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's q / John Driffill and Marcus Miller -- Asset purchase policies and portfolio balance effects: a DSGE analysis / Richard Harrison -- Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK / Stefania Villa and Jing Yang -- Central bank balance sheets and long term forward rates / Sharon Kozicki, Eric Santor and Lena Suchanek -- Non-standard monetary policy measures and monetary developments / Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin -- QE: one year on / Spencer Dale -- What saved the banks: unconventional monetary or fiscal policy? / Mike Wickens -- Non-conventional monetary policies: QE and the DSGE literature / Evren Caglar, Jagjit Chadha, Jack Meaning, James Warren and Alex Waters.
Summary: 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.
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New instruments of monetary policy / Jagjit S. Chadha and Sean Holly --
Liquidity and monetary policy / Douglas Gale --
Interest rate policies and stability of banking systems / Hans Gersbach and Jan Wenzelberger --
Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's q / John Driffill and Marcus Miller --
Asset purchase policies and portfolio balance effects: a DSGE analysis / Richard Harrison --
Financial intermediaries in an estimated DSGE model for the UK / Stefania Villa and Jing Yang --
Central bank balance sheets and long term forward rates / Sharon Kozicki, Eric Santor and Lena Suchanek --
Non-standard monetary policy measures and monetary developments / Domenico Giannone, Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin --
QE: one year on / Spencer Dale --
What saved the banks: unconventional monetary or fiscal policy? / Mike Wickens --
Non-conventional monetary policies: QE and the DSGE literature / Evren Caglar, Jagjit Chadha, Jack Meaning, James Warren and Alex Waters.

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.

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