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The Fed’s Yield-Curve-Control Policy

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  • Owen F. Humpage

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The recent global financial crisis left governments in many advanced countries with very heavy debt burdens and their central banks with huge portfolios of government bonds. With many central banks today still facing policy rates that are uncomfortably close to zero, some may follow the example of Japan, which recently added a new long-term interest rate target to its short-term target to give itself ?yield-curve control.? The Federal Reserve?s foray into similar territory around the Second World War suggests that combining yield-curve control with quantitative easing when government borrowing needs are substantial can create constraints on monetary policy that are not easily removed.

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  • Owen F. Humpage, 2016. "The Fed’s Yield-Curve-Control Policy," Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, issue November.
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    1. Hui, Cho-Hoi & Wong, Andrew & Lo, Chi-Fai, 2022. "A note on modelling yield curve control: A target-zone approach," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 49(C).

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