Large Scale Asset Purchases with segmented mortgage and corporate loan markets

Meixing Dai (), Frédéric Dufourt and Qiao Zhang

Working Papers of BETA from Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg

Abstract: We introduce Large Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPs) in a New-Keynesian DSGE model that features distinct mortgage and corporate loan markets. We show that following a significant disruption of financial intermediation, central-bank purchases of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are less effective at easing credit market conditions and stabilizing economic activity than outright purchases of corporate bonds. Moreover, the size of the effects crucially depends on the extent to which credit markets are segmented, i.e. to which a "portfolio balance channel" is at work in the economy. More segmented credit markets imply larger, but more local effects of particular asset purchases. With strongly segmented credit markets, large scale purchases of MBS are useful to stabilize the housing market but do little to mitigate the contractionary effect of the crisis on employment and output.

Keywords: Financial frictions; mortgage-backed securities (MBS); corporate bonds; unconventional monetary policy; large scale asset purchases (LSAPs); portfolio balance channel; credit spreads. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E44 E52 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ban, nep-dge, nep-mac and nep-ure
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