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Conventional vs. UnconventionalMonetary Policy under Financial Repression

Ankit Kumar, Rahul Rao and Chetan Subramanian
2021
Working Paper No
652
Body

We extend a simple Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with segmented financial markets to include financial repression and examine its impact on the transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policies. In our model, financial repression arises as the government forces banks to hold a fraction of their assets in government debt. We show that such distortions can invert monetary transmission under quantitative easing (QE) policy: an expansionary QE program raises termpremiums on corporate bonds and causes a contraction instead of
an expansion in the economy. Such perversion is absent under conventional policy. Further, in contrast to the literature Carlstrom et al. (2017), we show that a simple Taylor rule welfare dominates a termpremium peg under financial shocks while the peg does better in the case of non-financial shocks.

Key words
Financial Repression, Segmented AssetMarkets, Quantitative easing, Term Premium targeting, Leverage constraint
WP No. 652.pdf (884.18 KB)

Conventional vs. UnconventionalMonetary Policy under Financial Repression

Author(s) Name: Ankit Kumar, Rahul Rao and Chetan Subramanian, 2021
Working Paper No : 652
Abstract:

We extend a simple Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with segmented financial markets to include financial repression and examine its impact on the transmission of conventional and unconventional monetary policies. In our model, financial repression arises as the government forces banks to hold a fraction of their assets in government debt. We show that such distortions can invert monetary transmission under quantitative easing (QE) policy: an expansionary QE program raises termpremiums on corporate bonds and causes a contraction instead of
an expansion in the economy. Such perversion is absent under conventional policy. Further, in contrast to the literature Carlstrom et al. (2017), we show that a simple Taylor rule welfare dominates a termpremium peg under financial shocks while the peg does better in the case of non-financial shocks.

Keywords: Financial Repression, Segmented AssetMarkets, Quantitative easing, Term Premium targeting, Leverage constraint
WP No. 652.pdf (884.18 KB)