On 16 December 2008 the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) lowered the federal funds rate—its traditional monetary policy instrument—to essentially zero in response to the most severe U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression. Because U.S. currency carries an interest ...

The long period of low interest rates that followed the global financial crisis has rekindled interest in how short-term interest rates affect bank behavior. In particular it has led to a debate on how low policy rates influence bank risk-taking. This risk-taking channel of monetary policy corresponds ...

The economic situation in emerging markets has deteriorated in recent years. Perhaps the single most important event especially for Latin America has been the end of the so called commodity supercycle which intensified with the collapse in oil prices in late 2014. But the trend of weaker currencies ...

La estructura de tasas de interés permite recoger en tiempo real expectativas de agentes del mercado respecto de variables claves para la economía: movimientos futuros de la tasa de política monetaria y expectativas de inflación al horizonte de política monetaria, entre otras. El objetivo de este ...

Since late 2008 when short-term interest rates reached their zero lower bound central banks have been conducting monetary policy through two primary instruments: quantitative easing (QE) in which they buy long-term government bonds and other long-term securities and so-called forward guidance in which ...

Una versión adaptada de los métodos de Gürkaynak, Sack y Swanson (2005) se utiliza aquí para estimar dos dimensiones de política monetaria durante el período de piso cero de la tasa de interés en Estados Unidos entre el 2009 y el 2015. Se muestra que, tras una rotación adecuada, estas dos dimensiones ...