Interest rate pass-through and illiquidity shocks in the US
This study examines the US interest rate pass-through mechanism and considers the illiquidity shocks upon retail interest rate correlations caused by financial crises between 1986 and 2011. We estimate a bi-variable EGARCH model using a dynamic conditional correlation model developed by Engle (2002) in order to analyze how asymmetric monetary policy influences interest rate pass-through. We test the risks to the dynamic condition and changes in the correlation coefficient. The main empirical results are as follows. First, the long-run interest rate pass-through mechanism is unstable in the US. Second, expected monetary policy impulses are greater than the unexpected ones in the short-run. Finally, according to the one-step and N-step forecast tests, the illiquidity shocks caused by financial crises demonstrate a significant change in retail interest rate risks, but not in correlations between retail interest rates. We conclude that when the interest rate pass-through mechanism is unstable, banks may stop helping each other and will not provide loans to firms and consumers, thereby exhausting the capital of all economic systems. The characteristics of illiquidity enter into the interest rate pass-through mechanism; therefore, the relationship between illiquidity and the interest rate pass-through needs to be investigated.
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2013
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Authors: | Wang, Kuan Min |
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Journal of Economic Policy Reform. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 1748-7870. - Vol. 16.2013, 2, p. 198-217
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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