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Liquidity and Irish Interest Rates

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  • Patrick Honohan
  • Charles Conroy

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In recent papers (1993a and b) we have focused on the role of expectations in influencing Irish interest rates during the EMS period. Here we examine the role of monetary policy actions more directly, and explore the relation between interest rates, on the one hand, and actions of the monetary authorities in supplying liquidity to, and withdrawing it from, the market on the other. Though it is not clear just how effective recent Central Bank liquidity interventions have been in influencing interest rates, there is evidence of a change in policy towards a more aggressive attempt to stabilize rates after mid-1988. Before then, the reaction of Central Bank intervention to interest rate pressures was very modest (£20 million per one per cent movement in interest rates)and the impact cannot have been great.

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Paper provided by Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in its series Papers with number WP052.

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Length: 11 pages
Date of creation: Mar 1994
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Handle: RePEc:esr:wpaper:wp052

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  1. Patrick Honohan, 1994. "Interest Rate Policy in Practice: A Review with some Implications for the Irish Banking System in the EMS," Papers WP046, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
  2. Giavazzi, Francesco & Spaventa, Luigi, 1990. "The `New' EMS," CEPR Discussion Papers 369, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    • Francesco Giavazzi & Luigi Spaventa, 1990. "The "New" EMS," Working Papers 86, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
  3. Patrick Honohan & Charles Conroy, 1994. "Excess Returns on Irish Pound Assets in the EMS," Papers WP047, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).
  4. Lawrence J. Christiano & Martin Eichenbaum, 1992. "Liquidity Effects and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism," NBER Working Papers 3974, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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  7. Edward E. Leamer, 1979. "Is it a Demand Curve, or is it a Supply Curve?: Partial Identification Through Inequality Constraints," UCLA Economics Working Papers 153, UCLA Department of Economics.
  8. John Coleman, Wilbur II & Gilles, Christian & Labadie, Pamela, 1992. "The liquidity premium in average interest rates," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(3), pages 449-465, December.
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