Monetary Policy Alternatives at the Zero Bound

An Empirical Assessment

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12808194
AutoresBen S Bernanke, Ben Bernanke (Federal Reserve), Vincent R Reinhart, Vincent Reinhart (American Enterprise Institute), Brian Sack (Federal Reserve Board of Governors), Brian P Sack
Año2004
Fecha de publicación2004-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSSRN Electronic Journal (REPOSITORY)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1556-5068 • E-ISSN: 1556-5068
EditorialRELX Group (Netherlands) (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.2139/ssrn.632381
OpenAlexW3125384945
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas43

The success over the years in reducing inflation and, consequently, the average level of nominal interest rates has increased the likelihood that the nominal policy interest rate may become constrained by the zero lower bound. When that happens, a central bank can no longer stimulate aggregate demand by further interest-rate reductions and must rely on non-standard policy alternatives. To assess the potential effectiveness of such policies, we analyze the behavior of selected asset prices over short periods surrounding central bank statements or other types of financial or economic news and estimate no-arbitrage models of the term structure for the United States and Japan. There is some evidence that central bank communications can help to shape public expectations of future policy actions and that asset purchases in large volume by a central bank would be able to affect the price or yield of the targeted asset

Zero (linguistics · Zero lower bound · European Monetary and Fiscal Policies · Global Financial Crisis and Policies · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact