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How low can you go? negative interest rates and investors’ flight to safety

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  • Richard G. Anderson
  • Yang Liu

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It is not uncommon to observe negative interest rates during uncertain times, when investors flee to safety. But the existence of negative market yields provides no support for policies in which central banks set negative interest rates on deposits held at a central bank.

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  • Richard G. Anderson & Yang Liu, 2013. "How low can you go? negative interest rates and investors’ flight to safety," The Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Jan.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlre:y:2013:i:jan:x:2
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    1. Corsi, Fulvio & Lillo, Fabrizio & Pirino, Davide & Trapin, Luca, 2018. "Measuring the propagation of financial distress with Granger-causality tail risk networks," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 38(C), pages 18-36.
    2. Adam Glapiński, 2021. "Analiza ujemnych stóp procentowych na przykładzie Danii, Szwajcarii oraz Szwecji," Bank i Kredyt, Narodowy Bank Polski, vol. 52(3), pages 191-226.
    3. Fabian Schär, 2021. "Decentralized Finance: On Blockchain- and Smart Contract-Based Financial Markets," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 103(2), pages 153-174, April.
    4. Violeta A. Gutkowski, 2021. "Lockdown Responses to COVID-19," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 103(2), pages 127-151, April.
    5. Evan Karson & Christopher J. Neely, 2021. "More Stories of Unconventional Monetary Policy," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 103(2), pages 207-270, April.
    6. Edison Yu, 2016. "Did quantitative easing work?," Economic Insights, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, vol. 1(1), pages 5-13, January.
    7. Maria E. Canon & Limor Golan & Cody A. Smith, 2021. "Understanding the Gender Earnings Gap: Hours Worked, Occupational Sorting, and Labor Market Experience," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, vol. 103(2), pages 175-205, April.
    8. Miroslav Titze, 2016. "Menová politika záporných úrokových sadzieb v eurozóne a Japonsku [Monetary Policy of Negative Interest Rates in Eurozone and Japan]," Politická ekonomie, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2016(8), pages 953-972.
    9. Jozef Kiselak & Philipp Hermann & Milan Stehlik, 2016. "Negative interest rates: why and how?," Papers 1601.02246, arXiv.org.
    10. Wenbin Wu, 2018. "The Credit Channel at the Zero Lower Bound through the Lens of Equity Prices," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 50(2-3), pages 435-448, March.

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    Interest rates; Investments;

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