Monetary Policy and Real Borrowing Costs at the Zero Lower Bound / Simon Gilchrist, David López-Salido, Egon Zakrajšek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilchrist, Simon.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

López-Salido, David.

Zakrajšek, Egon.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w20094.

NBER working paper series no. w20094

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2014.

Summary:

This paper compares the effects of conventional monetary policy on real borrowing costs with those of the unconventional measures employed after the target federal funds rate hit the zero lower bound (ZLB). For the ZLB period, we identify two policy surprises: changes in the 2-year Treasury yield around policy announcements and changes in the 10-year Treasury yield that are orthogonal to those in the 2-year yield. The efficacy of unconventional policy in lowering real borrowing costs is comparable to that of conventional policy, in that it implies a complete pass-through of policy-induced movements in Treasury yields to comparable-maturity private yields.

Notes:

Print version record

May 2014.