Farmer, Roger E.A and Zabczyk, Pawel
(2016)
The theory of unconventional monetary policy.
CFM discussion paper series (CFM-DP2016-11).
Centre For Macroeconomics, London, UK.
Abstract
This paper is about the effectiveness of qualitative easing, a form of unconventional monetary policy that changes the risk composition of the central bank balance sheet with the goal of stabilizing economic activity. We construct a general equilibrium model where agents have rational expectations and there is a complete set of financial securities, but where some agents are unable to participate in financial markets. We show that a change in the risk composition of the central bank’s balance sheet will change equilibrium asset prices and we prove that, in our model, a policy in which the central bank stabilizes non-fundamental fluctuations in the stock market is Pareto improving and self-financing.
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