Unconventional monetary policy in a small open economy

Margaux MacDonald () and Michal Popiel

No 274693, Queen's Economics Department Working Papers from Queen's University - Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of unconventional monetary policy in Canada. We use recently proposed methods to construct a shadow interest rate that captures monetary policy at the zero lower bound (ZLB) and estimate a small open economy Bayesian structural vector autoregressive (B-SVAR) model. Controlling for the US macroeconomic and monetary policy variables, we find that Canadian unconventional monetary policy increased Canadian output by 0.23% per month on average between April 2009 and June 2010. Our empirical framework also allows us to quantify the effects of US unconventional monetary policy, which raised US and Canadian output by 1.21% and 1.94% per month, respectively, on average over the 2008-2015 period.

Keywords: Financial Economics; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38
Date: 2016-09
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Journal Article: Unconventional Monetary Policy in a Small Open Economy (2020)
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.274693

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