Arbeitspapier

Persistence and Long Memory in Monetary Policy Spreads

The overnight money market rate is a key monetary policy tool. In recent years, central banks worldwide have developed new monetary policy strategies aimed at keeping its deviations from the policy rate small and short-lived. This paper describes the main instruments used for this purpose by the US Fed, the ECB and the BoE and also their policy responses to the Great Financial Crisis (GFC). Fractional integration and long-memory methods are then applied to investigate how those affected the persistence of policy spreads (i.e., the difference between overnight rates and policy rates) during different sub-periods. It is found that this increased sharply during the GFC but has fallen back in recent years. In the case of the ECB the introduction of the new €-STR benchmark in particular appears to have made monetary policy more effective.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 8664

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes
Monetary Policy
Thema
interest rates
persistence
central banks
long memory
fractional integration

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria
Gil-Alaña, Luis A.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Caporale, Guglielmo Maria
  • Gil-Alaña, Luis A.
  • Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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