Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236638 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper No. 24/2021
Publisher: 
Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Could a monetary policy loosening in a low interest rate environment have unintended recessionary effects? Using a non-linear macroeconomic model fitted to the euro area economy, we show that the effectiveness of monetary policy can decline in negative territory until it reaches a turning point, where monetary policy becomes contractionary. The framework demonstrates that the risk of hitting the rate at which the effect reverses depends on the capitalization of the banking sector. The possibility of the reversal interest rate gives rise to a novel motive for macroprudential policy. We show that macroprudential policy in the form of a countercyclical capital buffer, which prescribes the build-up of buffers in good times, substantially mitigates the probability of encountering the reversal rate and increases the effectiveness of negative interest rate policies. This new motive emphasizes the strategic complementarities between monetary policy and macroprudential policy.
Subjects: 
Reversal Interest Rate
Negative Interest Rates
MacroprudentialPolicy
Monetary Policy
ZLB
JEL: 
E32
E44
E52
E58
G21
ISBN: 
978-3-95729-832-4
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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