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The Impact of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates

In: Quantitative Easing and Its Impact in the US, Japan, the UK and Europe

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  • Kjell Hausken

    (University of Stavanger)

  • Mthuli Ncube

    (Office of the Chief Economist African Development Bank Group
    Graduate School of Business Administration, University of the Witwatersrand)

Abstract

In this chapter, we empirically examine the impact of the recent quantitative easing (QE)-related announcements by the Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, and European Central Bank on their respective government bond yields using an event study methodology. This methodology has been widely used in the recent studies on the similar topics (see, for example, Kapetanios et al. 2012; Christensen and Rudebusch 2012; Joyce et al. 2011a, b; Lam 2011; etc.). Following the literature, our event study focuses on the immediate changes in government bond yields over a fairly narrow interval around the QE-related announcements to capture the market’s direct reaction to the news released, and we then take the cumulative change over all the relevant events as a measure of the overall effects of QE-related announcements on interest rates. Given the fundamental differences in both the instruments used and the structures of the economies, interest rates are likely to respond to QE-related announcements in different ways across the economies.

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  • Kjell Hausken & Mthuli Ncube, 2013. "The Impact of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Quantitative Easing and Its Impact in the US, Japan, the UK and Europe, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 13-68, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-1-4614-9646-5_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-9646-5_4
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