Testing the effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy in Japan and the United States
Unconventional monetary policy (UMP) may make the effective lower bound (ELB) on the short-term interest rate irrelevant. We develop a theoretical model that under[1]pins our empirical test of this ‘irrelevance hypothesis,’ based on the simple idea that under the hypothesis, the short rate can be ex...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2021
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