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Book Synopsis Three Essays on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area by : Matthieu Picault
Download or read book Three Essays on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in the Euro Area written by Matthieu Picault and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After September 2008, due to a frozen interbank market, shortage of liquidity, loss of confidence, and collapsing financial institutions, the monetary policy transmission in the euro area was severely impaired. Under thus exceptional circumstances, the European Central Bank (ECB) had to turn to non-standard monetary policy measures. Considering, in the euro area, the constrained range of actions and fragmented financial markets, the objective of this empirical thesis is to assess the transmission channels of ECB standard and non-standard monetary policies and their effects on both financial markets and the economy.As banks' lending behaviors are related to their financing costs, the first essay focuses on bank lending channel. It studies the evolution of lending activities of European financial institutions on the syndicated loan market and its reaction to the ECB standard and non-standard policies. The communication of the central bank is of utmost importance in a monetary union with heterogeneous, in terms of economic situations and cultures, countries. The second and third essays study the signaling channel of monetary policy. The second essay focuses on the communication during monthly press conferences and their effects on the predictability of monetary policy decisions and on financial markets returns and volatility. The last essay concentrates exclusively on the use of \textit{forward guidance} on interest rate, a non-standard central bank communication providing information on future short-term interest rates. It discusses its effectiveness and ability to lower market participants expected interest rates.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Financial System and the Transmission of Monetary Policy by : Junfeng Qiu
Download or read book Essays on the Financial System and the Transmission of Monetary Policy written by Junfeng Qiu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays on the Interaction between Monetary Policy and Financial Markets by : Alain Durré
Download or read book Essays on the Interaction between Monetary Policy and Financial Markets written by Alain Durré and published by Presses univ. de Louvain. This book was released on 2003 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the consequences of financial bubbles on economic activity, it is still an open question to what extent the monetary policy should react to sharp fluctuations of equity prices. This dissertation attempts to contribute to the debate with some theoretical and empirical analyses of the relationship between monetary policy and financial markets. Chapter 1 incorporates the effect of real equity prices on aggregate demand in a forward-looking expectations neo-Keynesian model. This effect arises either from a wealth effect or from a change in consumers' confidence. The objective function of monetary authorities depends on the output gap and the deviation of expected inflation from the target. A numerical simulation, based on US data, illustrates the quantitative importance of the financial market channel for various exogenous shocks. In Chapter 2, the variation of equity prices enters explicitly in the loss function of the monetary authorities while, at the same time, it affects aggregate demand. This modifies the optimal monetary policy by increasing the volatility of the nominal interest rate. Chapter 3 examines how the launch of the European single currency has affected expectations on future monetary policy by comparing the econometric results of a co-integrated VAR model on pre- and post- January 1999 data. Chapter 4 deals with diverse methodological issues related to the estimation of the Taylor rule, which represents Central Bank decisions by a single and stable function. Several interesting results emerge from the modelling of the Fed funds rate over the period 1987-2002. In particular, assuming a discontinuous and asymmetric response of the Federal Reserve to fluctuations of equity prices, corrects the apparent instability of the rule.
Book Synopsis Essays on Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy by : Abolfazl Setayesh Valipour
Download or read book Essays on Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy written by Abolfazl Setayesh Valipour and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My research revolves around financial institutions. In this essay, I aim to further our understandings of the internal workings of financial intermediaries, how they interact in financial networks, and how they affect monetary policy and the macroeconomy. In the first chapter, James Peck and I study a bank run model where the depositors can choose how much to deposit. In the many years and many published articles following the bank runs paper of Diamond and Dybvig (1983), only a few papers have modeled the decision of whether to deposit, much less the decision of how much to deposit. The questions we address here are, how does the opportunity for consumers to invest outside the banking system- in investments that do not provide liquidity insurance- (1) affect the nature of the final allocation, (2) affect the nature of the optimal deposit contract, and (3) affect the fragility of the banking system? We extend the Diamond and Dybvig (1983) model so to incorporate sequential service constraint and the opportunity of outside investments and show that under certain conditions the equilibrium entails partial deposits, thus arguing for the optimality of limited banking. One might think that when depositors are allowed to invest a fraction of their endowments outside the banking system, they would be hedging against the risk of a run occurring, but losing out on some of the services provided by banks. Thus, one might think that this would improve the stability of the financial system at the expense of lost efficiency. However, we show that the opposite could be true, with reduced stability (runs more likely) but higher efficiency! In the second chapter, I study the strategic behavior of heterogeneous banks in a network and its implications on the stability of the financial system. I construct a model alas Allen and Gale (2000) wherein banks differ in whether they are hit by an uninsurable excess liquidity demand. I show that in such a framework banks that are already facing a high liquidity demand are more likely to incur the burden of excess liquidity shocks even when that shock has not directly hit them, i.e. relatively healthier banks strategically pass liquidation costs to relatively less healthy banks. I also show that private bailouts arise endogenously in this framework. If the strategic behavior of a bank results in the other bank's failure, the first bank may choose to incur the burden of the liquidity shock by itself to let the other bank survive and, thus, to control the indirect costs of failure feeding back to its portfolio. I also show that for some economies the financial network becomes more stable as the level of cross-deposits is increased from the minimum level that fully insures banks against liquidity demand uncertainty up to a threshold level. In the third chapter, I study the role of financial intermediaries in the transmission of monetary policy in low interest rate environments. The global financial crisis not only proved our understanding of intermediaries were inaccurate and in many ways misleading but also provided an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the questions in ways that were not possible before. Among those, was the behavior of economic players in ultra-low and even negative market rates. I study the internal workings of intermediaries by exploiting geographical variation in market concentration and provide the first explanation for the gradual deterioration of monetary policy power in low market rates that does not rely on bank-specific characteristics and similarly applies to non-bank intermediaries. I show that- in stark contrast to the textbook view but consistent with my mechanism- in low market rates more concentrated banks respond to market rate falls by reducing their deposit supply as well as their loan supply by more than those of less concentrated banks. I argue this behavior is the response of banks to loan and deposit demand becoming less elastic to market rate changes in low market rates which itself is due to the shift of household assets from the ones that are fully responsive to market rate changes (e.g. money market funds) to those less responsive (e.g. deposits) or irresponsive (e.g. cash) in low market rates. As the market rate falls, The downward pressure of the increased market power and the upward pressure of the traditional channels, cause the non-monotonic response of banks to market rate changes. The results help explain the puzzling slow recovery of the economy as well as stable inflation after the global financial crisis. I also show that local house prices become less responsive to market rate changes in low market rates in the counties that are exposed to high-market-power banks.
Book Synopsis Three Essays on the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Non-bank Credit Activity by : Karl David Boulware
Download or read book Three Essays on the Transmission of Monetary Policy to Non-bank Credit Activity written by Karl David Boulware and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three essays that measure the impact of monetary policy on non-bank credit activity by issuer, composition, and duration. The first essay measures the dynamic impact of monetary policy on gross repurchase agreement activity of primary government dealers of the Federal Reserve System. The second essay measures the dynamic impact of monetary policy on commercial paper activity. The third essay measures the impact of monetary policy on issuers of asset-backed securities. In the first essay, we find a positive shock to the federal funds rate significantly affects the level of credit activity. In particular, repo arrangements longer than a day display persistent declines. By comparison, overnight financing increases after a delay. This implies that contractionary monetary policy shocks lead to maturity substitution in the repo market. Our findings show that credit activity in the repo market is more sensitive to monetary policy than previously reported in the literature. In the second essay, our measure of contractionary monetary policy shocks corresponds to a sharp decline in money market mutual fund assets. Though there is an increase in aggregate commercial paper volumes, the impact of monetary policy is stronger for issuers with less liquid balance sheets. Specifically, issuers of asset-backed paper and issuers with second tier credit ratings. Furthermore, there is evidence of a broad substitution towards shorter maturities, in particular for asset backed and nonfinancial paper. In the final essay, we find that an anticipated increase in the target for the federal funds rate impacts the behavior of ABS issuers. In particular, we find commercial paper issuance rises while bond issuance falls. Consequently, our results support the existence of a liquidity risk channel for monetary policy operating through the total supply of non-bank credit activity. In this manner, our findings indicate the monetary transmission mechanism contributes to systemic risk in the shadow banking system through rollover risk. As a result, non-bank credit activity is an important component of the relationship between monetary policy and financial stability.
Book Synopsis Essays on Monetary Policy by : Zhengyang Chen
Download or read book Essays on Monetary Policy written by Zhengyang Chen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal funds rate became uninformative about the stance of monetary policy from December 2008 to November 2015. During the same period, unconventional monetary policy actions, like forward guidance and large-scale asset purchases, show the Federal Reserve’s intention to depress longer-term interest rates. My research question is whether, after the 2007-2009 financial crisis, monetary policy still effectively influences or adjusts the real economy. The critical challenges are to indicate the impacts of increasingly diversified monetary policy actions and empirically identify monetary policy shocks more comprehensively than exclusively focusing on variation in the policy rate. Chapter 2 considers a long-term real interest rate as an alternative monetary policy indicator in a structural VAR framework. Based on an event study of FOMC announcements, I advance a novel measure of long-term interest rate volatility with important implications for monetary policy identification. I find that monetary policy shocks identified with this volatility measure drive significant swings in credit market sentiments and real output. In contrast, monetary policy shocks identified by otherwise standard unexpected policy rate changes lead to muted responses of financial frictions and production. These finding supports the validity of the risk-taking channel and suggests an indispensable role of financial markets in monetary policy transmission. Chapter 3 documents the pass-through of the short-term interest rate onto the components of Divisia monetary aggregates. The information factors extracted from real balances of monetary assets alleviate the price puzzle, which is commonly seen in conventional monetary VAR analysis of the transmission mechanism. We also show that financial and monetary markets reacted strongly to the Federal Reserve policy after 2007. The strong monetary response varies not only quantitatively over time, but qualitatively across asset classes. Although far from a one-to-one relationship, balances of assets more closely associated with household demand, such as currency and savings, tend to move in the opposite direction of short-term rates—indicative of a liquidity effect. Whereas balances more closely associated with firms returns are mixed, where institutional money markets also show a liquidity effect, large time deposits or commercial paper exhibit a strong Fisher effect post 2007. In summary, this dissertation sets the foundation for future research in the measurement of monetary policy and the investigation of monetary policy transmission to the real economy post the financial crisis.
Book Synopsis Three Essays on Monetary Policy, the Financial Market, and Economic Growth in the U.S. and China by : Juan Yang
Download or read book Three Essays on Monetary Policy, the Financial Market, and Economic Growth in the U.S. and China written by Juan Yang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does monetary policy affect the real economy? If so, what is the transmission mechanism or channel through which these effects occur? These two questions are among the most important and controversial in macroeconomics. This dissertation presents some new empirical evidence that addresses each question for the U.S. and Chinese economies. Literature on monetary transmission suggests that the monetary policy can take effect on the real economy through several ways. The most noteworthy one is credit channels, including the bank lending channel and the interest channel. First, I use a new method to test for structural breaks in the U.S. monetary policy history and present some new empirical evidence to support an operative bank lending channel in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy. Results show that an operative bank lending channel existed in 1955 to 1968, and its impact on the economy has become much smaller since 1981, but it still has a significant buffering effect on output by attenuating the effect of the interest channel. Second, I adopt the recently developed time series technique to explore the puzzling negative correlation between output and stock returns in China currently, and posit that it is due to a negative link between monetary policy and stock returns when monetary policy increases output. The monetary policy has not been transmitted well in the public sector which is the principal part of Chinese stock market, and increased investment capital from monetary expansion goes to real estate sector instead of the stock market. Last, I demonstrate how monetary policy has been transmitted into the public and private sectors of China through the credit channel. The fundamental identification problem inherent in using aggregated data that leads to failure in isolating demand shock from supply shock is explicitly solved by introducing control factors. I find that the monetary policy has great impact on private sector rather than public sector through credit channel in China. These findings have important practical implications for U.S. and China's economic development by improving the efficiency of the monetary policy because a comprehensive understanding of monetary transmission will lead to better policy design.
Book Synopsis Macroeconomics, Finance and Money by : Giuseppe Fontana
Download or read book Macroeconomics, Finance and Money written by Giuseppe Fontana and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on current issues of debate in the area of modern macroeconomics and money, written from (a broadly interpreted) post Keynesian perspective. The papers connect with Philip Arestis' contributions to macroeconomics and money, and pay tribute to his distinguished career.
Book Synopsis Essays on Monetary Policy Transmission by : Mario R. Gonzalez
Download or read book Essays on Monetary Policy Transmission written by Mario R. Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I contribute to the study of how monetary policy shocks are transmitted through the economy. I contribute to this literature by analyzing how different economic structures can alter the transmission of monetary policy shocks, both at an international level, by considering its regional impact, and at a domestic level, by discussing the implications of different levels of financial constraints and by studying how local financial markets react to monetary policy announcements.
Book Synopsis Essays on Monetary Policy and Banking by : Tumisang Bertha Loate
Download or read book Essays on Monetary Policy and Banking written by Tumisang Bertha Loate and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The size of the nancial sector in South Africa has grown signi cantly over the past fi fteen years to now almost three times the size of the economy. Parallel to that growth is the growth of the banking sector, speci cally the six commercial banks that dominate the sector. This expansion has both monetary policy and financial stability implications. The objectives of this PhD are to: (1) study the importance of internal and external variables for nancial stability; (2) determine the role of the structure of the banking sector in the transmission of monetary policy and macroeconomic shocks; and (3) understand financial stability in the context of both the South African financial system structure and demographic dynamics. We start with a cross-sectional analysis of how external and internal variables affect local fi nancial stability. We fi nd that local variables such as credit, stock market capitalisation and real exchange rate growth are better candidates for understanding local fi nancial stability for both the high and the upper middle income countries. Next we explore monetary policy and financial stability in the context of the South African banking system structure and socio-economic dynamics. An empirical analysis of the bank lending channel indicate that the effect of monetary policy is asymmetric - small banks are more affected by a contractionary monetary policy, whereas the big banks can adjust their loan portfolios to cushion the effects. However, these results (as well as the current South African literature) assume that the transmission of monetary policy and the way the exogenous shocks are generated have remained constant over time. We show that following the 2008 fi nancial crisis, both the big banks and small banks became more responsive to a monetary policy shock. We then develop a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyse - financial stability for the South African banking sector. The main elements to capture the socio-demographic characteristics include banking and household heterogeneity. We incorporate the relative consumption motive to capture the culture of "keeping up with the Joneses" that has resulted in high consumption driven by debt. The heterogeneity of the banking sector is motivated by the structure of the banking sector, which has enabled the existence of the big and the small banks serving the high-income and low-income households respectively. We calibrate the model using South African data. Our model shows that liquidity injections in the presence of the relative consumption motive increase loan demand whilst adverse shocks to the banks' balance sheets have welfare effects, especially for low-income households.
Book Synopsis Essays on Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy in a Globalized World by : Muhammad Naveed Tahir
Download or read book Essays on Inflation Dynamics and Monetary Policy in a Globalized World written by Muhammad Naveed Tahir and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this thesis is to analyze the impact of globalization on the dynamics of inflation and monetary policy in a globalized world. It consists of three essays.In the first essay we investigate the impact of financial globalization on the behaviour of inflation targeting emerging market economies with respect to exchange rate - Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements or not? We use quarterly data for six emerging market inflation targeting economies from the date of their inflation targeting adoption to 2009 Q4. The chapter uses small open economy new Keynesian model à la Gali and Monacelli (2005), and employs multi-equation GMM technique to investigate the relationship. We find that the response of central bank to the exchange rate in case of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Thailand is statistically significant while insignificant for Korea and Czech Republic. Theoretically, it should not be so as even under flexible inflation targeting central bank responds to inflation deviation and output gap; we think that the peculiar characteristics of emerging markets, like fear of floating, weak financial system and low level of central bank credibility make exchange rate important for these economies. In the second essay we investigate empirically the relative importance of monetary transmission channels for Brazil, Chile and Korea. This chapter uses monthly data from the inception of inflation targeting regime to 2009 M12. We use a SVAR model incorporating the main monetary transmission channels combined together instead of individual channels in isolation. The empirical results indicate that the exchange rate channel and the share price channel have higher relative importance than the traditional interest rate and credit channel for industrial production. The results are not much different in case of inflation, except for Korea. The high ranking of exchange rate and share price channel is in line with the results by Gudmundsson (2007), which finds that exchange rate channel might have overburdened in the wake of financial globalization.In the third chapter we investigate empirically the role of openness - real and financial - on the inflation dynamics of Brazil, Chile and Korea. The chapter uses monthly data from the inception of inflation targeting regime to the end month of 2009. In this chapter we employ the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) technique. We use imports to GDP ratio as an indicator for real openness whereas Chinn and Ito index (KAOPEN) and total assets plus total liabilities to GDP ratio form the data set of Lane and Milesi-Ferretti are two proxies for financial openness. The chapter concludes that there exists, generally, a positive relationship between real openness and inflation. However, in case of financial globalization the results are inconclusive as they are sensitive to measurement method of financial globalization.
Book Synopsis Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy by : Juan Medina
Download or read book Essays on Unconventional Monetary Policy written by Juan Medina and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays in which we provide a theoretical framework to study the transmission mechanism of unconventional monetary policy on real activity and credit markets under differing degrees of banking sector concentration. In particular, the three chapters in this dissertation focus on expansionary balance sheet policies consisting of long-term asset purchases by a central bank. The overall results indicate that such expansionary policies stimulate economic activity in the form of capital formation, increased credit volume and financial easing under low short-term interest rate economies when the financial sector is perfectly competitive. However, when the banking sector is fully concentrated, the transmission mechanism of monetary policy can be distorted and thus the impact of a long-term security purchase program is hampered. Our results also suggest that the fiscal authority as well as the industrial organization of the banking sector play fundamental roles in the transmission mechanism of unconventional monetary policy.
Book Synopsis Essays in Macroeconomic Policy by : Miranda S. Goeltom
Download or read book Essays in Macroeconomic Policy written by Miranda S. Goeltom and published by Gramedia Pustaka Utama. This book was released on 2007 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monetary Policy, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates by : David G. Dickinson
Download or read book Monetary Policy, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates written by David G. Dickinson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Fry was known internationally for his research on international and domestic financial issues. This book draws together contributions from a range of academic and policy-making friends and colleagues.
Book Synopsis Financial Sector Dynamics, Monetary Policy Transmission and Central Banking by : Ranasinghe Arachchige Anil Perera
Download or read book Financial Sector Dynamics, Monetary Policy Transmission and Central Banking written by Ranasinghe Arachchige Anil Perera and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis presents five empirical essays, all of which revolve around issues related to financial sector dynamics, interest rate pass-through, monetary policy transmission and central banking. The first research essay examines the dynamics and determinants of interest rate pass-through within the global context. This study first identifies long run interest rate pass-through in countries and then examines their changes over time. Thereafter, it explores various macroeconomic, financial/banking and institutional/governance determinants of interest rate pass-through. Findings suggest incomplete interest rate pass-through for the majority of countries while pointing to their changes over time. It also finds that amongst various determining factors of interest rate pass-through, financial market development, banking sector market power and central bank transparency remain the key determinants. The second research essay examines whether the dynamic economic and financial environment in an emerging market economy leads to changes in interest rate pass-through while reducing any asymmetries and heterogeneities. This study finds that economic and financial sector changes lead to substantial structural shifts in interest rate pass-through in emerging market economies. The results also suggest that despite there being structural changes, significant asymmetries and heterogeneities in interest rate pass-through exist due to prevailing high market power in the banking markets and also due to the impact of bank-specific characteristics.The third research essay examines issues related to the monetary transmission mechanism in an emerging market economy focusing on the effectiveness of monetary policy, the relative importance of different channels (interest rate, credit, exchange rate and asset prices), the sectoral effects of monetary policy across different financial institutions and the structural changes in the transmission process. The results suggest that market-based indirect instruments of monetary policy appear more effective in a liberalised financial environment, since price-based channels gain much importance. This study also supports the view that large financial institutions (generally banks) can withstand or delay the impact of monetary policy than small or financially vulnerable institutions pointing to substantial sectoral effects of monetary policy. The study also provides evidence on the changes in monetary transmission over time. The fourth research essay focuses on the impact of off-balance sheet banking on the bank lending channel of monetary transmission. This study finds that off-balance sheet banking reduces the effectiveness of the bank lending channel thus creating a buffering effect on monetary policy. It also finds that the buffering effects are substantial for small, highly-liquid and well-capitalised banks. The fifth research essay examines a recently recognised issue in central banking, i.e., central bank financial strength and its implications on inflation outcomes. Empirical estimates indicate that central bank financial strength is negatively associated with inflation suggesting that maintaining the health of the central bank balance sheet remains a vital pre-condition for desired policy outcomes of a central bank.The findings of this thesis provide important policy implications for economic policy makers, particularly for central banks while contributing to the existing academic literature.
Book Synopsis Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area by : Ignazio Angeloni
Download or read book Monetary Policy Transmission in the Euro Area written by Ignazio Angeloni and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2003 book offers the most systematic analysis available of the impact of European Central Bank monetary policy on the national economies of the Eurozone. Analysing macro and micro-economic evidence, with chapters by central bank economists, including a discussion chapter by eminent macroeconomists, it is an essential contribution to research on the subject.
Book Synopsis Essays on Monetary Economics by : Wenbin Wu
Download or read book Essays on Monetary Economics written by Wenbin Wu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 contributes to the recent debate about the importance of temporary price changes for monetary policy transmission. Although sales occur very frequently, macroeconomists often filter them out because sales are not responsive to economic shocks. Using micro data underlying CPI, I demonstrate that after sales, the price index of durables goes down gradually, and that the aggregation of sales of durable goods have a significant impact on the aggregate inflation. However, sales of nondurables--the focus of previous studies--do not show these results. To study the impact of sales, I then propose a two-sector menu-cost model with the feature of sales. The model is able to match the pattern of sales and moments in the micro data. By contrast, failing to account for temporary sales in a menu-cost model would increase the output effect by 73%, and the Calvo model calibrated to the frequency of regular price changes triples the output effect. Chapter 2 examines the impact of unconventional monetary policies on the stock market when the short-term nominal interest rate is stuck at the zero lower bound. Unconventional monetary policies appear to have significant effects on stock prices and the effects differ across stocks. In agreement with existing credit channel theories, I find that firms subject to financial constraints react more strongly to unconventional monetary policy shocks (especially large-scale asset purchases) than do less constrained firms. My results imply that the credit channel is as important as the interest rate channel in the transmission of unconventional monetary policies at the zero lower bound. Chapter 3 investigates the time-varying effects of monetary policy shocks on financial markets. I show that the corporate bond market is highly responsive to monetary policy shocks throughout 2000-2012, implying a high pass-through of policy-induced movements in Treasury yields to private yields even during the zero lower bound period. While the long-term Treasury bond market is highly sensitive to monetary policy shocks throughout almost the entire sample, the short-term Treasury bond market is severely constrained by the zero lower bound. The stock market is less responsive from 2008 to 2010, but the responsiveness bounces back rapidly in 2011.
