Monetary Policy and Corporate Debt Structure

Stéphane Lhuissier and Urszula Szczerbowicz

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: This paper evaluates and compares the effects of conventional and unconventional monetary policies on the corporate debt structure in the United States. It does so by using a vector autoregression in which policy shocks are identified through high-frequency external instruments. Our results show that conventional and unconventional expansionary monetary policies have similar positive effects on aggregate activity, but their impact on corporate debt structure goes in opposite directions: (i) conventional monetary easing increases loans to non-financial corporations and reduces corporate bond financing; (ii) unconventional monetary easing increases bond finance without affecting the loans.

Keywords: Conventional and unconventional monetary policy; Vector autoregression; External instruments; Corporate debt structure; Bank lending; Bond issuance. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E44 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2018
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