Monetary Policy and Financial Conditions: A Cross-Country Study

22 Pages Posted: 10 Jun 2019

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Tobias Adrian

International Monetary Fund

Fernando Duarte

Brown University

Federico Grinberg

International Monetary Fund

Tommaso Mancini Griffoli

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Date Written: June 2019

Abstract

Loose financial conditions forecast high output growth and low output volatility up to six quarters into the future, generating time-varying downside risk to the output gap, which we measure by GDP-at-Risk (GaR). This finding is robust across countries, conditioning variables, and time periods. We study the implications for monetary policy in a reduced-form New Keynesian model with financial intermediaries that are subject to a Value at Risk (VaR) constraint. Optimal monetary policy depends on the magnitude of downside risk to GDP, as it impacts the consumption-savings decision via the Euler constraint, and financial conditions via the tightness of the VaR constraint. The optimal monetary policy rule exhibits a pronounced response to shifts in financial conditions for most countries in our sample. Welfare gains from taking financial conditions into account are shown to be sizable.

Keywords: monetary policy, financial conditions, financial stability

JEL Classification: E52

Suggested Citation

Adrian, Tobias and Duarte, Fernando and Grinberg, Federico and Mancini Griffoli, Tommaso, Monetary Policy and Financial Conditions: A Cross-Country Study (June 2019). FRB of New York Staff Report No. 890, June 2019, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3400916 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3400916

Tobias Adrian

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Fernando Duarte (Contact Author)

Brown University ( email )

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Federico Grinberg

International Monetary Fund ( email )

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Tommaso Mancini Griffoli

International Monetary Fund (IMF) ( email )

700 19th Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20431
United States

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