scholarly journals Symposium on the Monetary Transmission Mechanism

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederic S Mishkin

Understanding of monetary transmission mechanisms is crucial to answering a broad range of questions. These transmission mechanisms include interest-rate effects, exchange-rate effects, other asset price effects, and the so-called credit channel. This introduction to the symposium provides an overview of the main types of monetary transmission mechanisms found in the literature and a perspective on how the papers in the symposium relate to the overall literature and to each other.

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Suvojit Lahiri Chakravarty

This paper studies the monetary transmission mechanism in India for the period 2004 April to 2015 March. It examines the relative importance of different channels of monetary transmission viz, interest, credit, asset price and exchange rate channel respectively. The study employs a series of VAR models to gain insight into how a change in the policy rate affects output and the price level. The importance of each of the channels is gauged by first taking the relevant channel variable as endogenous and then taking it as an exogenous variable in the VAR models to block off all interactions between the channel variable and all other endogenous variables. The results indicate the importance of the interest channel, credit channel and the asset price channel. The exchange rate channel is found to be weak for the Indian economy during the estimation period.


2021 ◽  
pp. 45-88
Author(s):  
Juan Antonio Morales ◽  
Paul Reding

This chapter explores the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM) in low financial development countries (LFDCs). It successively discusses the interest rate, asset price, bank credit, balance sheet, expectations, and real balance channels. For each channel, conceptual aspects about how it operates, how it transmits monetary policy impulses to the economy’s financial and real spheres, are first presented. Next, the impact of the specificities of LFDCs on the channel’s strength and reliability are examined and the available empirical evidence is surveyed. The chapter concludes with a global assessment of the effectiveness of the monetary transmission mechanism in LFDCs. Evidence points to a transmission mechanism that is effective although not very strong, and possibly also more uncertain than in advanced and emerging market countries.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Felix S. Nyumuah

Policymakers need a clear understanding of their monetary transmission mechanisms for effective implementation of monetary policy. The aim of this study is to carry out an econometric analysis of the channels of monetary transmission mechanism in less developed economies so as to determine their effectiveness. The study uses Ghana macroeconomic data and finds the money supply channel to be the strongest in the long run while the exchange rate channel seems the strongest in transmitting monetary impulses in the short run. The interest rate and the bank credit to private sector channels emerge as very weak channels of monetary transmission.


2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Neyer

Abstract This paper analyses the consequences of asymmetric information in credit markets for the monetary transmission mechanism. It shows that asymmetric information can not only reinforce but can also weaken or overcompensate the effects of the standard interest rate channel. Crucial is that informational problems lead to an external finance premium that can be positive or negative for marginal entrepreneurs. Tight money may lead to an increase in the absolute value of this premium, implying that there is a credit channel of monetary policy, but its working direction is ambiguous.


2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (02) ◽  
pp. 113-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
WEE BENG GAN ◽  
LEE YING SOON

This paper evaluates the monetary policy response of Malaysia's central bank and the nature of monetary transmission mechanism in the 1990s when the exchange rate was on a managed float and the capital account was open. Structural vector autogression analysis is employed to evaluate how the central bank sets short term interest rates taking into consideration the constraints faced in adjusting the policy instrument to shocks to the economy. The impulse response functions and the variance decomposition indicate that the central bank preferred to use foreign exchange intervention rather than interest rate to stabilize the ringgit exchange rate. The results suggest that a sustained high level of interest rates would have caused a prolonged and deep contraction in output during the East Asian financial crisis.


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