Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's Q
Driffill, John and Miller, M.H. (2011) Handling liquidity shocks: QE and Tobin's Q. In: Chadha, J.S. and Holly, S. (eds.) Interest Rates, Asset Prices and Liquidity: Lessons from the Financial Crisis. Macroeconomic Policy Making. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, pp. 108-116. ISBN 9781107014732.
Abstract
Book synopsis: Many of the assumptions that underpin mainstream macroeconomic models have been challenged as a result of the traumatic events of the recent financial crisis. Thus, until recently, it was widely agreed that although the stock of money had a role to play, in practice it could be ignored as long as we used short-term nominal interest rates as the instrument of policy because money and other credit markets would clear at the given policy rate. However, very early on in the financial crisis interest rates effectively hit zero percent and so central banks had to resort to a wholly new set of largely untested instruments to restore order, including quantitative easing and the purchase of toxic financial assets. This book brings together contributions from economists working in academia, financial markets and central banks to assess the effectiveness of these policy instruments and explore what lessons have so far been learned.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for |
| Depositing User: | John Driffill |
| Date Deposited: | 21 May 2013 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:03 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6772 |
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