Monetary Policy and Balance Sheets

By Deniz O Igan, Alain N. Kabundi, Francisco d Nadal De Simone, Natalia T. Tamirisa

July 3, 2013

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Deniz O Igan, Alain N. Kabundi, Francisco d Nadal De Simone, and Natalia T. Tamirisa Monetary Policy and Balance Sheets, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed October 6, 2024

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Summary

This paper evaluates the strength of the balance sheet channel in the U.S. monetary policy transmission mechanism over the past three decades. Using a Factor-Augmented Vector Autoregression model on an expanded data set, including sectoral balance sheet variables, we show that the balance sheets of various economic agents act as important links in the monetary policy transmission mechanism. Balance sheets of financial intermediaries, such as commercial banks, asset-backed-security issuers and, to a lesser extent, security brokers and dealers, shrink in response to monetary tightening, while money market fund assets grow. The balance sheet effects are comparable in magnitude to the traditional interest rate channel. However, their economic significance in the run-up to the recent financial crisis was small. Large increases in interest rates would have been needed to avert a rapid rise of house prices and an unsustainable expansion of mortgage credit, suggesting an important role for macroprudential policies.

Subject: Credit, Financial crises, Financial statements, Housing prices, Monetary policy, Monetary transmission mechanism, Money, Prices, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Balance sheet, Balance sheet dynamics, Balance sheet sensitivity, Balance sheet variable, Balance sheets, Balance-sheet channel, Credit, FAVAR, Financial statements, Generalized dynamic factor models, Housing prices, Monetary policy, Monetary policy shock, Monetary policy transmission, Monetary policy transmission mechanism, Monetary transmission mechanism, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

38
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Working Paper No. 2013/158
Stock No:

WPIEA2013158
ISBN:

9781484343500
ISSN:

1018-5941

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