scholarly journals A new approach to measuring economic policy shocks, with an application to conventional and unconventional monetary policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Inoue ◽  
Barbara Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Term Structure ◽  
Government Bond ◽  
Unconventional Monetary Policy ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Bond Yields ◽  
Economic Shocks ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Local Projections

We propose a new approach to analyze economic shocks. Our new procedure identifies economic shocks as exogenous shifts in a function; hence, we call them “ functional shocks.” We show how to identify such shocks and how to trace their effects in the economy via VARs using “ VARs with functional shocks” and “ functional local projections.” Using our new procedure, we address the crucial question of studying the effects of monetary policy by identifying monetary policy shocks as shifts in the whole term structure of government bond yields in a narrow window of time around monetary policy announcements. Our approach sheds new light on the effects of monetary policy shocks, both in conventional and unconventional periods, and shows that traditional identification procedures may miss important effects. Our new procedure has the advantage of identifying monetary policy shocks during both conventional and unconventional monetary policy periods in a unified manner and can be applied more generally to other economic shocks.

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.

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.

Understanding the Impact of Monetary Policy in Korea using a Macro-Finance Term Structure Model with

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-192
Author(s):  
Woon Wook Jang ◽  
Jaehoon Hahn
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Term Structure ◽  
Yield Curve ◽  
Call Rate ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Macroeconomic Factors ◽  
Term Structure Model ◽  
Term Premium ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Macro Finance

This paper examines the interaction between monetary policy and the macroeconomy using a macro-finance term structure model of Joslin, Priebsch, and Singleton (2012), in which macroeconomic risks are not assumed to be spanned by information about the shape of the yield curve. For model estimation, we apply the Kalman filter to a large number of macroeconomic time series data grouped into output, inflation, and market stress categories and extract three common factors. For the factors determining the shape of the yield curve, we use the call rate, the spread between 10-year government bond yield and the call rate, and a combination of the call rate, 2- and 10-year government bond yields as proxies for the level, slope, and curvature factors. We interpret the call rate as a proxy for both the short rate and the instrument of monetary policy. Empirical results show that the macroeconomic factors have a significant impact on the risk premium associated with monetary policy shocks. Furthermore, we find that monetary policy shocks increase the term premium, which in turn affects the factors determining the yield curve, and such effects on the shape of the yield curve feeds back into the macroeconomic factors. Taken together, empirical findings in this paper can be interpreted as evidence supporting the term premium channel (Ferman, 2011) of monetary policy transmission mechanism.

WHEN DOES MONETARY MEASUREMENT MATTER (MOST)?

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Makram El-Shagi
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Index Number ◽  
Economic Uncertainty ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Interaction Terms ◽  
Index Number Theory ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Local Projections ◽  
Relevant Interaction ◽  
Selection Of

It has repeatedly been shown that properly constructed monetary aggregates based on index number theory (such as Divisia money) vastly outperform traditional measures of money (i.e. simple sum money) in empirical models. However, opponents of Divisia frequently claim that Divisia is “too complex” for little gain. And indeed, at first glance it looks as if simple sum and Divisia sum exhibit similar dynamics. In this paper, we want to build deeper understanding of how and when Divisia and simple sum differ empirically using monthly US data from 1990M1 to 2007M12. In particular, we look at how they respond differently to monetary policy shocks, which seems to be the most essential aspect of those differences from the perspective of the policy maker. We use a very rich, fairly agnostic setup that allows us to identify many potential nonlinearities, building on a smoothed local projections approach with automatic selection of the relevant interaction terms. We find, that—while the direction of change is often similar—the precise dynamics differ sharply. In particular in times of economic uncertainty, when the proper assessment of monetary policy is most relevant, those existing differences are drastically augmented.

Taper Tantrums: Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anusha Chari ◽  
Karlye Dilts Stedman ◽  
Christian Lundblad
Keyword(s):  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Term Structure ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Spillover Effects ◽  
Quantitative Easing ◽  
Monetary Policy Shocks ◽  
Term Structure Model ◽  
Policy Shocks ◽  
Term Premia

Abstract This paper examines the spillover effects of U.S. unconventional monetary policy (UMP) on emerging market capital flows and asset prices. Affine term structure model estimates show that U.S. monetary policy shocks, identified with high-frequency Treasury futures data, represent revisions to expected short-term yields and term premia, especially during the UMP period. The policy shocks exhibit sizable effects on U.S. holdings of emerging market assets. These effects disproportionately manifest through valuation changes versus physical flows, are more pronounced for equity relative to bond markets, and are asymmetric between the quantitative easing and tapering periods, with flows more important during the unwinding.

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