The financial market effects of unwinding the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet
A. Lee Smith and
Victor (Vic) Valcarcel
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2023, vol. 146, issue C
Abstract:
Twice in a brief 12-year period between 2008 and 2020, central banks turned to asset purchase programs to combat a global economic downturn. While balance sheet expansions have become familiar and been widely studied, balance sheet normalization is less well understood. This paper provides a first analysis of the financial market effects of balance sheet normalization based on the U.S. experience between 2017 and 2019. We find evidence that unwinding past asset purchases tightens financial conditions. However, we show that these effects cannot be merely portrayed as quantitative easing in reverse. In particular, we find that balance sheet normalization generally lacked the large announcement effects that characterized quantitative easing. Instead, the effects of normalization manifested upon implementation and surfaced, in part, through larger liquidity effects than were evident during various phases of balance sheet expansion.
Keywords: Monetary policy; Balance sheet; Announcement effect; Liquidity effect; Event study; Structural VAR; Financial conditions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E3 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104582
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