Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240326 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers No. 3/2020
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
Since the Great Recession, the main evolution in monetary policy has been its attempts to affect the medium and the long-term interest rates with instruments other than the policy rate. Consequently, measuring the stance of monetary policy by a single interest rate becomes problematic. This study explores the macroeconomic effects of conventional and unconventional policy measures in the euro area in a unified framework. We identify simultaneously three monetary policy shocks that influence different parts of the yield curve. These shocks reflect various aspects of actions and communications of the European Central Bank in conventional and unconventional monetary policy periods. According to the results, conventional interest rate policy, forward guidance and quantitative easing have asymmetric output and price responses.
Subjects: 
Unconventional monetary policy
structural VAR
zero lower bound
term structureof interest rates
JEL: 
C32
C36
E43
E52
C54
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-323-311-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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