The theory of unconventional monetary policy

Roger Farmer and Pawel Zabczyk

No 613, Bank of England working papers from Bank of England

Abstract: This paper is about the effectiveness of qualitative easing, a form of unconventional monetary policy that changes the risk composition of the central bank balance sheet with the goal of stabilizing economic activity. We construct a general equilibrium model where agents have rational expectations and there is a complete set of financial securities, but where some agents are unable to participate in financial markets. We show that a change in the risk composition of the central bank’s balance sheet will change equilibrium asset prices and we prove that, in our model, a policy in which the central bank stabilizes non-fundamental fluctuations in the stock market is Pareto improving and self-financing.

Keywords: Unconventional monetary policy; qualitative easing; central bank balance sheet; portfolio balance effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E02 G11 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2016-09-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-dge, nep-mac, nep-mon and nep-sog
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