scholarly journals Monetary Policy And Long-Term Interest Rates In South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lumengo Bonga-Bonga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Impulse Response Functions ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Supply Shock ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Structural Vector Autoregressive Model

This paper examines how short-term and long-term interest rates react to supply, demand and monetary policy shocks in South Africa. Use is made of the impulse response functions obtained from the structural vector autoregressive model with long-term restrictions. We find a positive correlation between the two interest rates after a monetary and demand shock and a negative correlation after a supply shock. The finding of this paper is that the operation of the monetary transmission mechanism should be effective in South Africa. Furthermore, this paper provides an approach to identify supply shocks in the South African business cycle.

scholarly journals Spillovers of US Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policies to Russian Financial Markets

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shigeki Ono
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Federal Funds Rate ◽  
Monetary Policies ◽  
Endogenous Variables ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Monetary Policy Shock

This paper investigates the spillovers of US conventional and unconventional monetary policies to Russian financial markets using VAR-X models. Impulse responses to an exogenous Federal Funds rate shock are assessed for all the endogenous variables. The empirical results show that both conventional and unconventional tightening monetary policy shocks decrease stock prices whereas an easing monetary policy shock does not increase stock prices. Moreover, the results suggest that an unconventional tightening monetary policy shock increases Russian interest rates and decreases oil prices, implying reduced liquidity in international financial markets.

scholarly journals MONETARY POLICY, HOUSING BOOMS, AND FINANCIAL (IM)BALANCES

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 830-860 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Eickmeier ◽  
Boris Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Balance Sheets ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis

This paper applies a factor-augmented vector autoregressive model to U.S. data with the aim of analyzing monetary transmission via private sector balance sheets, credit risk spreads, and house prices and of exploring the role of monetary policy in the housing and credit boom prior to the global financial crisis. We find that monetary policy shocks have a persistent effect on house prices, real estate wealth, and private sector debt and a strong short-lived effect on risk spreads in money and mortgage markets. Moreover, the results suggest that monetary policy contributed considerably to the unsustainable precrisis developments in housing and credit markets. Although monetary policy shocks contributed discernibly at a late stage of the boom, feedback effects of other (macroeconomic and financial) shocks via lower policy rates kicked in earlier and appear to have been considerable.

scholarly journals The Time-Varying Effect of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 690-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Paul
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Asset Prices ◽  
House Prices ◽  
The United States ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Real Economy ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Policy Shocks

This paper studies how monetary policy jointly affects asset prices and the real economy in the United States. I develop an estimator that uses high-frequency surprises as a proxy for the structural monetary policy shocks. This is achieved by integrating the surprises into a vector autoregressive model as an exogenous variable. I use current short-term rate surprises because these are least affected by an information effect. When allowing for time-varying model parameters, I find that compared to the response of output, the reaction of stock and house prices to monetary policy shocks was particularly low before the 2007–2009 financial crisis.

US unconventional monetary policy and Islamic equity indices

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 575-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayyed Mahdi Ziaei
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Unconventional Monetary Policy ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Term Spread ◽  
Us Economy ◽  
Policy Shocks

Purpose This paper aims to constitute to the first empirical work that investigated the effects of US unconventional monetary policy shocks on Islamic equities. Design/methodology/approach The authors used the spread between sovereign (term spread) and corporate (corporate spread) yields as proxies of unconventional monetary policy in times that FED implemented different rounds of large-scale asset purchasing programs. Findings This paper demonstrates that monetary policy shocks have significant effects on Islamic equities. The analysis showed substantial evidence that the corporate spread innovation was reflected as a positive signal in Islamic equity markets and has a larger impact on Islamic low leverage equities than term spread. Originality/value The objective of this paper is to shed some insight into the effects of US unconventional monetary policy on low leverage financial assets. It is hypothesized that during this period, specifically from November 2008, unconventional monetary policy and zero bound interest rates have been implemented in the US economy. However, the strength of effects of this range of policies on Islamic financial products is unidentified.

TRANSMISSION OF MONETARY POLICY SHOCKS: DO INPUT–OUTPUT INTERACTIONS MATTER?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (8) ◽  
pp. 1881-1903
Author(s):  
Aarti Singh ◽  
Stefano Tornielli Di Crestvolant
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Intermediate Goods ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Vector Autoregressive ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Monetary Policy Shock ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Transmission Of Monetary Policy

We examine whether input–output interactions among industries impact the transmission of monetary policy shocks through the economy. Using vector autoregressive (VAR) methods we find evidence of heterogeneity in the output response to a monetary policy shock in both finished goods industries and intermediate goods industries. While output responses in finished goods industries can be related to heterogeneity in industry characteristics, this relationship is not so obvious for intermediate goods industries. For the intermediate goods industries in our sample, we find new evidence of demand-spillover effects that impact the transmission of monetary policy via input–output linkages.

scholarly journals Identifying conventional and unconventional monetary policy shocks: a latent threshold approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takeshi Kimura ◽  
Jouchi Nakajima
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Regime Switching ◽  
Structural Var ◽  
Var Model ◽  
Recursive Identification ◽  
Time Varying ◽  
Unconventional Monetary Policy ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Policy Shocks

AbstractThis paper proposes a new estimation framework for identifying monetary policy shocks in both conventional and unconventional policy regimes using a structural VAR model. Exploiting a latent threshold modeling strategy that induces time-varying shrinkage of the parameters, we explore a recursive identification switching with a time-varying overidentification for the interest rate zero lower bound. We empirically analyze Japan’s monetary policy to illustrate the proposed approach for modeling regime-switching between conventional and unconventional monetary policy periods, and find that the proposed model is preferred over a nested standard time-varying parameter VAR model. The estimation results show that increasing bank reserves lowers long-term interest rates in the unconventional policy periods, and that the impulse responses of inflation and the output gap to a bank reserve shock appear to be positive but highly uncertain.

scholarly journals Variations in the Effects of a Single Monetary Policy: The Case of Russian Regions

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-45
Author(s):  
Vadim Napalkov ◽  
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Anna Novak ◽  
Andrey Shulgin ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Model Specification ◽  
Impulse Response Functions ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Regional Heterogeneity ◽  
Core Inflation ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Exchange Rate Shocks

This research analyses regional heterogeneity in the reaction of core inflation to shocks of a single monetary policy on the example of Russia. We use a global vector autoregression model to reveal impulse response functions of core inflation in Russian regions to monetary policy shocks. The average 5-year cumulative response of regional core inflation to a MIACR shock of 1 percentage point (pp) is ‒0.74 pp. For 77 out of 80 regions, the 5-year cumulative core inflation response is found to be statistically significant. If we exclude three statistically insignificant responses and discard the four regions with the highest and lowest responses, we get a spread of ‒0.55 to ‒0.93 pp with a standard deviation of 0.12. We show that, over a one-year horizon, the heterogeneous response to monetary policy shocks can moderately reduce the heterogeneity of the response of regional inflation to exchange rate shocks. However, the magnitude of this effect is limited. According to the analysis of the regional heterogeneity factors, the higher are the share of extractive industries in the gross regional product of a region, the share of loans to manufacturing sector, the share of loans to small enterprises, as well as the unemployment rate, the stronger will be the reaction of the core inflation to the monetary policy shock. The degree of heterogeneity in the Russian regions’ core inflation response to monetary policy shocks, the set of factors explaining this heterogeneity, and the explained variation in the regional response (30–40% depending on the model specification) turn out to be comparable to similar indicators in other countries with pronounced regional heterogeneity.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Monetary Policy Shocks and Exchange Rate Fluctuations in Nigeria and South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
Sulaiman L. A. ◽  
Lawal N. A. ◽  
Migiro S. O.
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Interest Rate ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Exchange Rate Fluctuations ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Short Run

The study examined a comparative analysis of monetary policy shocks and exchange rate fluctuations based on evidence from the two largest economies in Africa (Nigeria and South Africa) – from 1985 to 2015. Data were derived from various sources which include the National Bureau of Statistics, the Central Banks reports and the World Bank database. Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Analysis was used as the estimation technique. The results indicated that the foreign interest rate in South Africa had higher variations in the short-run. While in the long-run, foreign interest rate has higher percentage variations to exchange rate. In Nigeria the world oil price has the higher influence on exchange rate both in the short-run and longrun periods. Based on these results, the study then recommended that the monetary authorities and policymakers in both countries encourage external currency inflows into the economy.  

Monetary policy influences in Australian housing markets

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Costello ◽  
Patricia Fraser ◽  
Garry MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
Empirical Method ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
The Impact

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the impact of common monetary policy shocks on house prices at national and capital city levels of aggregation, using Australian data and the Lastrapes (2005) two-part structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) empirical method. Design/methodology/approach – The Lastrapes (2005) two-part SVAR empirical method is applied to Australian housing market and macroeconomic data to assess the impact of common monetary policy shocks on house prices. Findings – Results show that while the impact of shocks to interest rates on aggregate house prices is almost neutral, the responses of state capital city house prices to the same shock can exhibit significant asymmetries. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the monetary policy–asset price debate by examining the influence of Australian monetary policy on capital city housing markets over the period 1982-2012. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first empirical study that has adapted this Lastrapes (2005) methodology to the analysis of housing markets.

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