MODELING NONLINEAR AND HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMIC LINKS IN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY MARKETS

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (S2) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed El Hedi Arouri ◽  
Fredj Jawadi ◽  
Duc Khuong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Error Correction Models ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Dynamic Links

We use daily short-term interbank interest rates of France, the United Kingdom, and the United States to examine the dynamic links of international monetary markets from 2004 to 2009. Results from vector error-correction models and smooth-transition error-correction models show strong evidence of nonlinear and heterogeneous causalities between the three interest rates. We also find that changes in the U.S. interest rate deviations from the long-run equilibrium led those in France and in the United Kingdom by one to two days. Finally, the national interest rate nexus appears to converge in nonlinear fashion toward a steady state because it is subject to structural change beyond a certain rate threshold. Our findings have important implications for the actions of leading central banks (ECB, Bank of England, and U.S. Fed) because the joint behavior of short-term interest rates can be viewed as an indicator of the degree of central banks' policy interdependence.

MONETARY POLICY AND GOVERNMENT DEBT MANAGEMENT DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 255 ◽  
pp. 79-84
Author(s):  
William A. Allen
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Debt Management ◽  
Budget Deficits ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Government Bonds ◽  
The United Kingdom

This paper describes how the large budget deficits of 2020 in the United States and the United Kingdom were financed, how central banks are in practice managed not just short-term interest rates but also yields on government bonds, and how their ability to resist a post-coronavirus surge in inflation has been compromised.

scholarly journals THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF DETERMINING THE INTEREST RATE IN THE TRANSFORMATION OF MONETARY POLICY

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
T.A GORBACHEVA ◽  
◽  
T.N BARKOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Time Lag ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Interest Rate Policy ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
The Interest Rate

Modern practice of macroeconomic management is based on the regulation of money supply through the management of interest rates, mainly short-term. Short-term interest rate management is a Central approach to implementing monetary policy in countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Euro area. By changing the interest rates on operations of providing or absorbing liquidity, the national Central Bank has a significant impact on the level of interest rates for the same period in the money market. Consequently, the structure of all short-term rates changes for a longer period. Depending on a number of factors, including the exchange rate and the expected level of inflation, the structure of long-term interest rates also changes. Each change occurs with a certain time lag. Changes in interest rates affect the savings and investment decisions of households and firms. The purpose of this article is to study the transformation of the concept of interest and the development of interest rate theories. There are used methods of critical and comparative analysis, a systematic approach to the study of information. The theoretical aspects of determining the interest rate in the development of monetary policy are systematized. The main approaches to the development of interest rate policy in the framework of monetary regulation are studied. The obtained theoretical results can be used in the formation and adjustment of monetary policy.

scholarly journals Was the New Deal Contractionary?

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 524-555 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gauti B Eggertsson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
New Deal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Zero Bound ◽  
The New Deal

Can government policies that increase the monopoly power of firms and the militancy of unions increase output? This paper shows that the answer is yes under certain “emergency” conditions. These emergency conditions—zero interest rates and deflation—were satisfied during the Great Depression in the United States. The New Deal, which facilitated monopolies and union militancy, was therefore expansionary in the model presented. This conclusion is contrary to a large previous literature. The main reason for this divergence is that this paper incorporates rigid prices and the zero bound on the short-term interest rate. JEL: E23, E32, E52, E62, J51, N12, N42

Monetary Trends in the United States and the United Kingdom, 1878–1970: Selected Findings

1975 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rate Of Change ◽  
Final Phase ◽  
Expansion Phase ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Successive Phase

Milton Friedman and I have been engaged for some time in a study of the characteristic behavior of the quantity of money over long periods in relation to income, prices, and interest rates m the United States and the United Kingdom. In our study, our observations of levels are the average annual values of each variable during cyclical phases, starting with the expansion phase of 1878–1882 in the United States and 1879–1883 in the United Kingdom, and ending with the final phase that can be marked off for each country, respectively, 1969–1970 and 1968–1969. In all, we have forty-five observations of levels for the United States, and thirtythree for the United Kingdom. In addition to levels of observation, we also examine rates of change, which we express as the slopes of least-squares lines connecting three successive phase averages. For each country, the rate-of-change observations are two fewer than the number of level observations.

scholarly journals Unconventional Monetary Policies in the Euro Area, Japan, and the United Kingdom

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 147-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Dell’Ariccia ◽  
Pau Rabanal ◽  
Damiano Sandri
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Euro Area ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
Unconventional Monetary Policy ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
The United Kingdom

The global financial crisis hit hard in the euro area, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Real GDP from peak to trough contracted by about 6 percent in the euro area and the United Kingdom and by 9 percent in Japan. In all three cases, central banks cut interest rates aggressively and then, as policy rates approached zero, deployed a variety of untested and unconventional monetary policies. In doing so, they hoped to restore the functioning of financial markets, and also to provide further monetary policy accommodation once the policy rate reached the zero lower bound. In all three jurisdictions, the strategy entailed generous liquidity support for banks and other financial intermediaries and large-scale purchases of public (and in some cases private) assets. As a result, central banks’ balance sheets expanded to unprecedented levels. This paper examines the experience with unconventional monetary policies in the euro zone, the United Kingdom, and Japan. The paper starts with a discussion of how quantitative easing, forward guidance, and negative interest rate policies work in theory, and some of their potential side effects. It then reviews the implementation of unconventional monetary policy by the European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the Bank of Japan, including a narrative of how central banks responded to the crisis and the evidence on the effects of unconventional monetary policy actions.

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