Title
Identifying Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks
Abstract
This paper proposes a novel method for identifying unconventional monetary policy shocks. The method incorporates the movement of two unconventional monetary policy indicators, namely, the size and composition of the central bank’s balance sheet, after the bank makes policy decisions. Under some restrictions imposed in the vector autoregressive model, we identify two unconventional policy shocks, quantitative and qualitative shocks, as news shocks that best portend the current and future paths of the unconventional policy indicators in response to the policy shocks. The qualitative easing shocks have expansionary effects on the real economy, while the quantitative easing shocks have contractionary effects.
Keywords
Quantitative easing, Qualitative easing, Conventional monetary policy, Vector autoregressive model, News shock
JEL Classification
E52, E58
Inquiries
Faculty of Economics, Konan University
Masahiko SHIBAMOTO
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration,
Kobe University
Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe
657-8501 Japan
Phone: +81-78-803-7036
FAX: +81-78-803-7059
Koji TAKAHASHI
Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, USA