Expectations and the quantitative easing in Eurozone

Nicholas Apergis ()

Economics and Business Letters, 2018, vol. 7, issue 1, 18-23

Abstract: The European economy suffered from both the 2008 financial crisis and the debt sovereign crisis of certain of its members and then experienced a period of quantitative easing (QE) starting in 2015. The goal of this study is to explore the direct and exclusive effects of this rather unconventional monetary policy on financial markets, economic activity, and labor markets across the Eurozone. The analysis employs the Markov-switching dynamic regression method. The findings illustrate the reduction of short- and log-term credit spreads, increased stock prices, improved market expectations, recovered labor market conditions and economic productivity, while the primary transmission channel of the QE policy is the expectations channel.

Date: 2018
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