Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium
IMF Working Papers, April 3, 2013
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- Authors: Raphael A Espinoza, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
- Published: April 3, 2013
- Series: IMF Working Papers
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484392331.001
Main findings
- Trade and asset prices depend on both the supply of liquidity by the Central Bank and the liquidity of assets and commodities.
- Monetary aggregates are informative for the conduct of monetary policy.
- Asset prices are higher in liquidity-constrained states of nature.
- A term premium is generated even in the absence of aggregate uncertainty.
- These results hold in any monetary economy with heterogeneous agents and short-term liquidity effects, where monetary costs act as transaction costs and the quantity theory of money is verified.
Policy implications and analysis
- Monitoring monetary aggregates provides actionable information for the conduct of monetary policy because asset and trade prices respond to central bank liquidity supply.
- Policies that affect the liquidity of assets and commodities can influence asset prices and the term premium independently of aggregate uncertainty.
- Recognizing monetary costs as transaction costs highlights short-term liquidity effects as a channel through which monetary policy impacts asset valuation.
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- Title: Monetary Transaction Costs and the Term Premium
- Authors: Raphael A Espinoza, Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
- Date: April 3, 2013
- Series: Working Paper No. 2013/085
- Issue: 085
- Volume: 2013
- Pages: 38
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781484392331.001
- Stock No: WPIEA2013085
- ISBN: 9781484392331
- ISSN: 1018-5941
- Subjects: Asset prices, Commodities, Liquidity, Monetary base, Short term interest rates
- Keywords: risk premium, spot interest rate, WP
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