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- Title
Quantitative easing impotence in the liquidity trap: Further evidence.
- Authors
Kirikos, Dimitris G.
- Abstract
Quantitative easing (QE) ineffectiveness in periods of liquidity trap conditions has been empirically verified for Japan, USA, and the Eurozone, on the basis of a switching regimes approach. In this work, we present further evidence that unconventional monetary policies are impotent when policy rates are close to their lower bound, using monthly data from Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK, whose central banks also pursued QE policies in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. For all the economies considered, we obtain evidence of drastic regime shifts for base money growth which are successfully captured by a Markov switching regimes representation, but inflation, investment expenditure growth, and broad money growth do not appear to change significantly in different QE policy regimes, thus pointing to unconventional monetary policy impotence.
- Subjects
LIQUIDITY (Economics); GLOBAL Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; IMPOTENCE; MONETARY policy; CENTRAL banking industry
- Publication
Economic Analysis & Policy, 2020, Vol 68, p151
- ISSN
0313-5926
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.eap.2020.09.004