Lessons from the Bank of England on 'quantitative easing' and other 'unconventional' monetary policies

International Review of Financial Analysis

Volumn 25, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-105

  Lyonnet, Victor ^a,b   Werner, Richard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b SCIENCES PO   (France)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central banking; Credit creation; General to specific methodology; Intermediate targets; Monetary policy; Operating tools; QE; Qualitative easing; Quantitative easing; Zero bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870548892     PISSN: 10575219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.irfa.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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