Unwinding Quantitative Easing: State Dependency and Household Heterogeneity

Cristiano Cantore and Pascal Meichtry

Working papers from Banque de France

Abstract: his paper studies the asymmetry in the macroeconomic effects of central bank asset market operations induced by state dependency and the associated role of household heterogeneity. We build a New Keynesian model with borrowers and savers in which quantitative easing and tightening operate through portfolio rebalancing between short-term and long-term government bonds. We highlight the significance of an occasionally binding zero lower bound in explaining a weaker aggregate impact of asset sales relative to asset purchases. In this context, when close to the lower bound, raising the nominal interest rate prior to unwinding quantitative easing mitigates the economic costs of monetary policy normalization. Furthermore, our results imply that household heterogeneity in combination with state dependency amplifies the revealed asymmetry, while household heterogeneity alone does not enhance the aggregate effects of asset market operations.

Keywords: Unconventional Monetary Policy; Quantitative Tightening; Quantitative Easing; Heterogeneous Agents; Zero Lower Bound (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E32 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 2024
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-mon
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Journal Article: Unwinding quantitative easing: State dependency and household heterogeneity (2024)
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