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Ripple effects of monetary policy

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  • Frederic Boissay
  • Emilia Garcia-Appendini
  • Steven Ongena

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Is conventional monetary policy transmitted through the demand for and supply of intermediate goods in an economy? Analyzing unique US data on corporate linkages, we document that downstream and upstream corporate financial health are instrumental for the transmission of monetary policy. Our estimates suggest that contractionary changes in monetary conditions lead to reductions in both the demand and the supply of all financially constrained business partners, thereby creating bottlenecks, which induce the linked firms themselves to curtail their own activities ("ripple effects"). Overall, our estimates suggest that changes in monetary conditions may have a quantitatively larger impact on firms' operations through the changes in demand and supply induced by constrained business partners than through the firms' own financial conditions.

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  • Frederic Boissay & Emilia Garcia-Appendini & Steven Ongena, 2021. "Ripple effects of monetary policy," BIS Working Papers 957, Bank for International Settlements.
    • Handle: RePEc:bis:biswps:957
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    Keywords

    monetary policy transmission; supply chain; aggregate demand; cost channel;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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