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Unconventional monetary policy and the credit channel in the euro area

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  • Evgenidis, Anastasios
  • Salachas, Evangelos

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We disentangle credit supply and demand and we then embed this information into a Bayesian threshold VAR model to investigate the importance of the demand channel and the broad credit channel in the transmission of unconventional monetary policy on the macroeconomy during financial stress periods. We find that during such periods, UMP shocks boost aggregate demand for loans, increase agents’ net worth and revitalize credit to firms and households. In addition, counterfactual analysis suggests that non-standard policy measures aiming at stimulating loan demand and relaxing banks’ balance sheet constraints would provide a significant support to economic activity, prices and the financial sector.

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  • Evgenidis, Anastasios & Salachas, Evangelos, 2019. "Unconventional monetary policy and the credit channel in the euro area," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 185(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:185:y:2019:i:c:s0165176519303465
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.108695
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    Keywords

    Unconventional monetary policy; Credit channel; Threshold-VAR;
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    JEL classification:

    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
    • C32 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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