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Have Federal Reserve MBS purchases affected market functioning?

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Beginning in October 2011, the Federal Reserve began ongoing purchases of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS). I test the extent to which these purchases were associated with disruptions in indicators of market functioning by using daily data on Federal Reserve MBS purchase operations. I find that two separate proxies for market functioning show adverse responses to Federal Reserve purchases that appear to be most closely linked to the additional open-ended MBS purchase program announced in September 2012. However, the magnitude of the disruption in market functioning appears to be quite modest.

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  • Kandrac, John, 2013. "Have Federal Reserve MBS purchases affected market functioning?," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 121(2), pages 188-191.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:121:y:2013:i:2:p:188-191
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.011
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    1. Hancock, Diana & Passmore, Wayne, 2011. "Did the Federal Reserve's MBS purchase program lower mortgage rates?," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 58(5), pages 498-514.
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    Keywords

    LSAP; Quantitative easing; Monetary policy; MBS; Market functioning; Open market operations;
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    JEL classification:

    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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