The changing transmission mechanism of US monetary policy

Endut, Norhana and Morley, James and Tien, Pao-Lin (2018) The changing transmission mechanism of US monetary policy. Empirical Economics, 54 (3). pp. 959-987. ISSN 0377-7332

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Abstract

We examine the relative importance of the interest rate, exchange rate, and bank-lending channels for the transmission mechanism of monetary policy in the United States over the past fifty years. Our analysis is based on a structural vector autoregressive model that includes bank loans and uses sign restrictions to identify monetary policy shocks. Given these identified policy shocks, we quantify the relative importance of different transmission channels via counterfactual analysis. Our results suggest a nontrivial role for the bank-lending channel at the aggregate level, but its importance has been greatly diminished since the early 1980s. Despite the timing, we find no support for a link between this change in the transmission mechanism and the concurrent reduction in output volatility associated with the Great Moderation. There is, however, some evidence of a link to the reduction in inflation volatility occurring at the same time.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Empirical Economics
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? bank-lending channelsign restrictionsmonetary policy shockgreat moderationeconomics and econometricssocial sciences (miscellaneous)mathematics (miscellaneous)statistics and probabilityc32e52 ??
ID Code:
130424
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Deposited On:
16 Jan 2019 11:15
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Yes
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Published
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15 Jul 2024 18:47