Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162682 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 2031
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The main result in Svensson (2017) and its previous versions is that, given current knowledge and empirical estimates, the cost of using monetary policy to "lean against the wind" for financialstability purposes exceeds the benefit by a substantial margin. Adrian and Liang (2016a) conduct a sensitivity analysis of this result, state that "the result that costs exceed benefits rely critically on assumptions about the change in unemployment in a recession or crisis, the crisis probability, and the elasticity of crisis probability with respect to the interest rate," and provide alternative assumptions that they assert would overturn the result. This paper shows that Adrian and Liang's alternative assumptions are hardly realistic: they exceed existing empirical estimates by more than 11, 13, and 40 standard errors. Adrian and Liang furthermore do not comment on the extensive sensitivity analysis already done in previous versions of Svensson (2017), which supports the robustness of my result.
Subjects: 
financial crises
financial stability
monetary policy
JEL: 
E52
E58
G01
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-2753-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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