Monetary Policy in Exceptional Times

Economic Policy 62

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 295-339

  Lenza, Michele ^a   Pill, Huw ^a   Reichlin, Lucrezia ^b   Ravn, Morten ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'credit easing', natural continuation of policies prior to the Lehman failure; ECB, Federal Reserve Bank of England, monetary policy since crisis of August 2007; Non standard monetary policy measures, affecting EURIBOR MRO spreads; Non standard monetary policy measures, since August 2007; Strong loan growth, asset prices narrowing credit, banks liquidity management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886331837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444390261.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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