Negative Interest Rate Policy as Conventional Monetary Policy

Miles Kimball

National Institute Economic Review, 2015, vol. 234, issue 1, R5-R14

Abstract: As long as all interest rates move in tandem – including the rate of return on paper currency – economic theory suggests no important difference between interest rate changes in the positive region and interest rate changes in the negative region. Indeed, in standard models, only the real interest rate and spreads between real interest rates matter. Thus, in most respects, negative interest rate policy is conventional. It is only (a) what needs to be done with paper currency, (b) difficulties in understanding negative rates or (c) institutional features interacting with negative rates that make negative interest rate policy unconventional.

Keywords: monetary policy; negative interest rates; unconventional; stabilisation; transmission (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E31 E41 E42 E43 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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