Liquidity, Risk Premia, and the Financial Transmission of Monetary Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 309-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itamar Drechsler ◽  
Alexi Savov ◽  
Philipp Schnabl
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Risk Sharing ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Risk Premia ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
Liquidity Premium ◽  
Impact Risk ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Transmission Of Monetary Policy

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of research on the transmission of monetary policy through the financial system, fueled in part by empirical findings showing that monetary policy affects asset prices and the financial system in ways not explained by the New Keynesian paradigm. In particular, monetary policy appears to impact risk premia in stock and bond prices and to effectively control the liquidity premium in the economy (the cost of holding liquid assets). We review these findings and recent theories proposed to explain them, and we outline a conceptual framework that unifies them. The framework revolves around the central role of liquidity in risk sharing and explains how monetary policy governs its production and use within the financial sector.

scholarly journals Transmission of Monetary Policy with Heterogeneity in Household Portfolios

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Ralph Luetticke
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
Liquidity Premium ◽  
Income Risk ◽  
Marginal Value ◽  
Household Portfolios ◽  
Household Portfolio ◽  
Business Cycle Model ◽  
Liquidity Premia ◽  
Transmission Of Monetary Policy

This paper assesses the importance of heterogeneity in household portfolios for the transmission of monetary policy in a New Keynesian business cycle model with uninsurable income risk and assets with different liquidity. In this environment, monetary transmission works through investment, but redistribution lowers the elasticity of investment via two channels: (i) heterogeneity in marginal propensities to invest, and (ii) time variation in the liquidity premium. Monetary contractions redistribute to wealthy households who have high propensities to invest and a low marginal value of liquidity, thereby stabilizing investment. I provide empirical evidence for countercyclical liquidity premia and heterogeneity in household portfolio responses. (JEL E12, E32, E52, G11, G51)

scholarly journals On the Limits of Macroprudential Policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Kolasa
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
Output Volatility ◽  
Macroprudential Policy ◽  
Collateral Constraints ◽  
Keynesian Model ◽  
Additional Stabilization ◽  
The Interest Rate

AbstractThis paper studies how macroprudential policy tools applied to the housing market can complement the interest rate-based monetary policy in achieving one additional stabilization objective, defined as keeping either economic activity or credit at some exogenous (and possibly time-varying) levels. We show analytically in a canonical New Keynesian model with housing and collateral constraints that using the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, tax on credit or tax on property as additional policy instruments does not resolve the inflation-output volatility tradeoff. Perfect targeting of inflation and credit with monetary and macroprudential policy is possible only if the role of housing debt in the economy is sufficiently small. The identified limits to the considered policies are related to their predominantly intertemporal impact on decisions made by financially constrained agents, making them poor complements to monetary policy, which also operates at an intertemporal margin. These limits can be overcome if macroprudential policy is instead designed such that it sufficiently redistributes income between savers and borrowers.

Korea's Post-Crisis Monetary Policy Reforms

2005 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 707-731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghyun Park ◽  
Junggun Oh
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Capital Inflows ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
The Future

Korea's financial crisis of 1997–1998 was brought about by the unsustainable combination of large capital inflows and an inefficient financial system. The Bank of Korea contributed to the crisis primarily through its failures as the regulator of the financial system rather than as the conductor of monetary policy. Our paper explores the role of the two major monetary policy reforms Korea has implemented in response to the crisis — the establishment of a new financial regulator and the adoption of inflation targeting — in Korea's efforts to build a stronger and more efficient financial system, thereby preventing crises in the future.

scholarly journals Should Inequality Factor into Central Banks' Decisions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (196) ◽  
Author(s):  
Niels-Jakob Hansen ◽  
Alessandro Lin ◽  
Rui Mano
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Central Banks ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
New Keynesian Model ◽  
Taylor Rules ◽  
Keynesian Model

Inequality is increasingly a concern. Fiscal and structural policies are well-understood mitigators. However, less is known about the potential role of monetary policy. This paper investigates how inequality matters for monetary policy within a tractable Two-Agent New Keynesian model that captures important dimensions of inequality. We find some support for making inequality an explicit target for monetary policy, particularly if central banks follow standard Taylor rules.

scholarly journals MONETARY TRANSMISSION MECHANISM UNDER DUAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN INDONESIA: CREDIT-FINANCING CHANNEL

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-278
Author(s):  
Reza Jamilah Fikri
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Error Correction ◽  
Financial System ◽  
Error Correction Model ◽  
Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Monetary Transmission ◽  
Correction Model ◽  
Monetary Transmission Mechanism ◽  
Financing Channel

The presence of Islamic and conventional banking in the dual financial system of Indonesia equally hold the role as financial intermediator which theoretically banks collect fund from the debitors to be distributed to creditors. However, along with the changing of time there has been a development in the financial industry, when financial deregulation occurs, where the role of providing credit is not only owned by the banks but also other financial institutions. As the result, banks are no longer considered as the center of financial intermediation but could be replaced by other financial instruments. This study aims to reconsider the role of banking as financial intermediation in the monetary transmission mechanism using three methodoligal approaches which  are Vector Autoregression and Vector Error Correction Model (VAR-VECM), Error Correction Model (ECM), and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL). The long-term results of ECM and VECM estimations both show that credit and finacing channel are still relevant to be employed in the monetary transmission mechanism after the development of financial sector and the change of monetary policy, yet only have an impact to economy and do not give effect to inflation. While the result of ARDL estimation indicates that none of the variables affect the  monetary policy objectives which means that credit and financing channel are considered to be getting weaker in the monetary transmission mechanism.   Keywords : Monetary Transmission Mechanism, Credit Channel, Dual Financial System JEL Classification: E51, E52, E58

Canada’s Middle Class—Forever Further Behind?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Osberg
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Income Distribution ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Growth Strategy ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
The Future ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
The Cost

This chapter highlights Canada’s distinctive trajectory of inequality and living standards. Inequality rose markedly because real incomes grew strongly at the very top but stagnated for most of the rest of the income distribution until the resource-led boom of the 2000s. The importance of macroeconomic policy is brought out, in particular the role of monetary policy in choking off growth in order to keep inflation low, at the cost of substantial unemployment. The growth in incomes at the very top may be underestimated by the available estimates, while the weakening of redistribution via the tax and transfer systems has accentuated the trend to greater inequality. The consequences of a sustained ‘squeeze’ on middle incomes and living standards are spelled out and the implications for the future, in the absence of a major shift in the growth strategy, are discussed.

Services Deepening and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 1261-1293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Galesi ◽  
Omar Rachedi
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
New Keynesian ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Marginal Costs ◽  
Cost Channel ◽  
Keynesian Model ◽  
Output Matrix ◽  
Inflation Rates ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Transmission Of Monetary Policy

Abstract The structural transformation from manufacturing to services comes with a process of services deepening: the services share of intermediate inputs rises over time. Moreover, inflation reacts less to monetary policy shocks in countries that are more intensive in services intermediates. We rationalize these facts using a two-sector New Keynesian model where trends in sectoral productivities generate endogenous variations in the Input–Output matrix. Services deepening reduces the contemporaneous response of inflation to monetary policy shocks through a marginal cost channel. Since services prices are stickier than manufacturing prices, the rise of services intermediates raises the sluggishness of sectoral marginal costs and inflation rates.

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