A half-century diversion of monetary policy? An empirical horse-race to identify the UK variable most likely to deliver the desired nominal GDP growth rate

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dc.contributor.authorRyan-Collins, Joshen
dc.contributor.authorWerner, Richard A.en
dc.contributor.authorCastle, Jenniferen
dc.date.acceptance2016-03-25en
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-23T09:49:22Z
dc.date.available2018-11-23T09:49:22Z
dc.date.issued2016-04-13
dc.descriptionopen access articleen
dc.description.abstractThe financial crisis of 2007–2008 triggered monetary policy designed to boost nominal demand, including ‘Quantitative Easing’, ‘Credit Easing’, ‘Forward Guidance’ and ‘Funding for Lending’. A key aim of these policies was to boost the quantity of bank credit to the non-financial corporate and household sectors. In the previous decades, however, policy-makers had not focused on bank credit. Indeed, over the past half century, different variables were raised to prominence in the quest to achieve desired nominal GDP outcomes. This paper conducts a long-overdue horse race between the various contenders in terms of their ability to account for observed nominal GDP growth, using a half-century of UK data since 1963. Employing the ‘General-to-Specific’ methodology, an equilibrium-correction model is estimated suggesting a long-run cointegrating relationship between disaggregated real economy credit and nominal GDP. Short-term and long-term interest rates and broad money do not appear to influence nominal GDP significantly. Vector autoregression and vector error correction modelling shows the real economy credit growth variable to be strongly exogenous to nominal GDP growth. Policy-makers are hence right to finally emphasise the role of bank credit, although they need to disaggregate it and specifically target bank credit for GDP-transactions.en
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dc.identifier.citationRyan-Collins, J., Werner, R.A. and Castle, J. (2016) A half-century diversion of monetary policy? An empirical horse-race to identify the UK variable most likely to deliver the desired nominal GDP growth rate. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 43, pp.158–176en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2016.03.009
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2086/17265
dc.language.isoenen
dc.peerreviewedYesen
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dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.researchinstituteFinance and Banking Research Group (FiBRe)en
dc.titleA half-century diversion of monetary policy? An empirical horse-race to identify the UK variable most likely to deliver the desired nominal GDP growth rateen
dc.typeArticleen

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