This paper uses a simple money demand and supply framework to estimate the impact of quantitative easing (QE) on asset prices and nominal spending. We use standard money accounting to try to establish the impact of asset purchases on broad money holdings. We show that the initial impact of £200...

We present a framework for measuring the evolution of risks to financial stability over the financial cycle, which we apply to the United Kingdom. We identify 29 indicators of financial stability risk, drawing from the literature on early warning indicators of banking crises. We normalise and...

Part 2 This paper is the second part of a study on the determinants of the broad money aggregate M4, following a similar analysis of the personal sector developed in Bank of England WORKING PAPER No 61. It models the broad money holdings of both industrial and commercial companies (ICCs) and...

In this paper a structural empirical model of the UK monetary transmission mechanism is estimated, which can be used for policy analysis and forecasting. A small system is estimated containing eight variables that theoretically have an important role in the transmission mechanism. The paper then...

Part 1 Interpreting movements in monetary aggregates is an important part of the assessment of inflationary pressures in the UK's current monetary policy framework. This paper is the first part of a follow-up study to Fisher and Vega in 1993 ( Bank of England WORKING PAPER No 21), examining the...

This paper sets out an empirical framework for examining the dynamics of money and credit at a sectoral level. Our purpose is to understand and monitor the transmission mechanisms of different policies that affect the financial sector, with an eye to practical policy analysis. We use the banking...

Understanding the role of money in the economy has always been an important issue for policymakers. And the pickup in broad money growth and decline in credit spreads over the past three years together with more recent financial market turbulence has made it a particularly pertinent issue....