Liquidity Effects of Quantitative Easing on Long-Term Interest Rates

Signe Krogstrup, Samuel Reynard and Barbara Sutter

No 2012-02, Working Papers from Swiss National Bank

Abstract: This paper argues that the expansion in reserves following recent quantitative easing programs of the Federal Reserve may have affected long-term interest rates through liquidity effects. The data lends some support for liquidity effects, in that reserves were negatively correlated with long-term yields at the zero lower bound. Estimates suggest that between January 2009 and 2011, 10-year US Treasury yields fell 46-85 basis points as a result of liquidity effects. The liquidity effect is separate from the portfolio balance effect of the change in the public supply of Treasury bonds, which is estimated to have reduced yields by another 20 basis points during that period.

Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Reserves; Liquidity Effect; Long-Term Interest Rates; Zero Lower Bound; Monetary Policy; Portfolio Balance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E43 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2012
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