Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/306610 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 978
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance, London
Abstract: 
We study alternative approaches to the withdrawal of prolonged unconventional monetary stimulus ("exit strategies") by central banks in large, advanced economies. We first show empirically that large-scale asset purchases affect the exchange rate and domestic and foreign term premiums more strongly than conventional short-term policy rate changes when normalizing by the effects on domestic GDP. We then build a two-country New Keynesian model that features segmented bond markets, cognitive discounting and strategic complementarities in price setting that is consistent with these findings. The model implies that quantitative easing (QE) is the only effective way to provide monetary stimulus when policy rates are persistently constrained by the effective lower bound, and that QE is likely to have larger domestic output effects than quantitative tightening (QT). We demonstrate that "exit strategies" by large advanced economies that rely heavily on QT can trigger sizeable inflation-output tradeoffs in foreign recipient economies through the exchange rate and term premium channels. We also show that these tradeoffs are likely to be stronger in emerging market economies, especially those with fixed exchange rates.
Subjects: 
Monetary Policy
Quantitative Easing
International Spillovers
JEL: 
C54
E52
E58
F41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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