The global crisis and unconventional monetary policy : ECB versus Fed

In the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis, which broke-out in 2007, the major central banks started implementing so-called unconventional monetary policy measures. Following a fundamentally qualitative methodology, the aim of this paper is to compare the unconventional measures ad...

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Autor principal: Tuckwell, Carolina (author)
Outros Autores: Mendonça, António (author)
Formato: workingPaper
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2016
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Texto completo:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11718
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/11718
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Resumo:In the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis, which broke-out in 2007, the major central banks started implementing so-called unconventional monetary policy measures. Following a fundamentally qualitative methodology, the aim of this paper is to compare the unconventional measures adopted by the ECB and the Fed, assessing their characteristics and also their impacts on the economy.