Arbeitspapier

Central bank purchases of government bonds

We develop a microfounded model, where agents have the possibility to trade money for government bonds in an over-the-counter market. It allows us to address important open questions about the effects of central bank purchases of government bonds, these being: under what conditions these purchases can be welfare-improving, what incentive problems they mitigate, and how large these effects are. Our main finding is that this policy measure can be welfare-improving, by correcting a pecuniary externality. Concretely, the value of money is increased as central bank's purchases of government bonds induce agents to increase their demand for money, which is welfare-improving.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Working Paper ; No. 193

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Money and Interest Rates: General
Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit: General
Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
Thema
Monetary theory
over-the-counter markets
quantitative easing
money demand
pecuniary externality

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Huber, Samuel
Kim, Jaehong
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Zurich, Department of Economics
(wo)
Zurich
(wann)
2015

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Huber, Samuel
  • Kim, Jaehong
  • University of Zurich, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2015

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