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The Limits of a Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP)

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Illing, G. The Limits of a Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP). Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, 51(4), 561-585. https://doi.org/10.3790/ccm.51.4.561
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The Limits of a Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP)

Illing, Gerhard

Credit and Capital Markets – Kredit und Kapital, Vol. 51 (2018), Iss. 4 : pp. 561–585

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Duncker & Humblot
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Prof. Dr. Gerhard Illing, University of Munich, Department of Economics, Ludwigstrasse 28, D-80539 Munich, E-Mail: Illing@lmu.de

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  34. Agarwal R./Kimball, M. (2015), “Breaking Through the Zero Lower Bound,” IMF Working Paper, No. 15/224.  Google Scholar
  35. Altavilla, C./Canova, F./Ciccarelli, M. (2016), Mending the broken link: Heterogeneous bank lending and monetary policy pass-through. ECB Working Paper Series 1978.  Google Scholar
  36. Andrade, P./Breckenfelder, J./De Fiore, F./Karadi, P./Tristani, O. (2018), The Reanchoring Channel of QE* The ECB’s Asset Purchase Programme and Long-Term Inflation Expectations, ECB Frankfurt, mimeo, to appear in the International Journal of Central Banking.  Google Scholar
  37. Basten, C./Mariathasan, M. (2018), How Banks Respond to Negative Interest Rates: Evidence from the Swiss Exemption Threshold, CESifo Working Paper 6901, Munich.  Google Scholar
  38. Blanchard, O./Dell’Ariccia, G./Mauro, P. (2010): “Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy,” IMF Staff Position Note.  Google Scholar
  39. Borio, C./Zabai, A. (2016) “Unconventional monetary policies: a re-appraisal”, BIS Working Paper No 570, 2016.  Google Scholar
  40. Cao, J./Illing, G. (2015): “‘Interest rate trap’, or: Why does the central bank keep the policy rate too low for too long?” Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 117(4), 1256–1280.  Google Scholar
  41. Coibion, O./Wieland, J./Gorodnichenko, Y. (2012), The Optimal Inflation Rate in New Keynesian Models: Should Central Banks Raise Their Inflation Targets in Light of the Zero Lower Bound?” Review of Economic Studies, 79(4), 1371–1406.  Google Scholar
  42. Del Negro, M./Giannone, D./Giannoniand, M. P./Tambalotti, A. (2017), “Safety, Liquidity and the Natural Rate of Interest,” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring, pp. 235–303.  Google Scholar
  43. Eggertsson, G./Juelsrud, R./Wold, E. G. (2017), “Are negative nominal interest rates expansionary?”, NBER Working Paper 24039.  Google Scholar
  44. Eggertsson, G./Woodford, M. (2003), “Zero Bound on Interest Rates and Optimal MonetaryPolicy”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 1, 139–233, Washington, D.C.  Google Scholar
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  48. Heider, F./Saidi, F./Schepens, G. (2016), Life Below Zero: Bank Lending Under Negative Policy Rates, Working Paper.  Google Scholar
  49. Holston, K./Laubach, T./Williams, J. C. (2017), “Measuring the Natural Rate of Interest: International Trends and Determinants.” Journal of International Economics, 108, Supplement 1, S59–S75.  Google Scholar
  50. Hristov, N./Hülsewig, O./Wollmershäuser, T. (2014) The interest rate passthrough in the Euro area during the global financial crisis, Journal of Banking & Finance, 48 (C), 104–119.  Google Scholar
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  52. Illing, G./Siemsen, T. (2016): “Forward guidance in a model with price-level targeting.” CESifo Economic Studies 62(1): 47–67.  Google Scholar
  53. Kiley, M. T. (2015). “What Can the Data Tell Us About the Equilibrium Real Interest Rate?” Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2015–077, Federal Reserve Board of Governors.  Google Scholar
  54. Kiley, M, T./Roberts, J. (2017), “Monetary Policy in a Low Interest Rate World”, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 317–396.  Google Scholar
  55. Laubach, T./Williams, J. (2003), Measuring the Natural rate of Interest, Review of Economics and Statistics 85, 1063–1070.  Google Scholar
  56. Nakamura, E./Steinsson, J./Sun, P./Villar, D. (2016) “The Elusive Costs of Inflation: Price Dispersion during the U.S. Great Inflation.” NBER Working Paper No. 22505.  Google Scholar
  57. Rognlie, M. (2016), What Lower Bound? Monetary Policy with Negative Interest Rates, mimeo, MIT.  Google Scholar
  58. Rogoff, K. (2014), Costs and Benefits of Phasing out Paper Currency, NBER Working Paper 20126.  Google Scholar
  59. Schenkelberg, H./Watzka, S. (2013), Real effects of quantitative easing at the zero lower bound: Structural VAR-based evidence from Japan, Journal of International Money and Finance 33. 327–357.  Google Scholar
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  62. Urbschat, F. (2018), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Impact of Unconventional Monetary Policy on the Profitability and Risk-Taking of 1600 German Banks, CESifo Working Paper, Munich.  Google Scholar
  63. Weizsäcker, C. C. von (2015), Kapitalismus in der Krise? – Der negative natürliche Zins und seine Folgen für die Politik. In: Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik 16, 189–212.  Google Scholar
  64. Wicksell, K. (1898), Geldzins und Güterpreise, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena.  Google Scholar

Abstract

The paper analyzes the experience with unconventional measures to cope with the Zero Lower Bound. It argues that forward guidance and quantitative easing are the natural extension of optimal monetary policy within the New Keynesian Framework, facing a Lower Bound. Unconventional policy had significant effects on financial variables and contributed to stabilizing the real economy. Negative rates have been successful in pushing the effective lower bound below zero. But given the risk of damaging side effects on financial stability and on central bank independence, these policy tools are likely to be less powerful and shorter-lived compared to standard tools. In view of the long-term decline of the natural rate of interest, raising the inflation target up to 3–4 percent appears to be the most promising way to relax the constraint imposed by the lower bound, providing a resilient buffer for effective stabilization.

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