The United Kingdom's Asset Purchase Program (U.K. GFC)Ariel Smith ()
Journal of Financial Crises, 2020, vol. 2, issue 3, 437-458 Abstract: On March 5, 2009, in the wake of the fallout from the Global Financial Crisis, the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England announced a new, unconventional policy measure: quantitative easing. The MPC determined that simply cutting the Bank Rate in the face of a recession would not be enough to boost spending and increase inflation to meet the Bank's goal of a 2% CPI-inflation target in the medium term. Rather, over the course of the next year, the Bank purchased GBP200 billion of assets--primarily gilts--in reverse auctions through a newly created Asset Purchase Program. After just under one year of purchases and a brief hiatus, the Bank revisited the program in 2011 and purchased an additional GBP175 billion of assets, bringing the total to GBP375 billion. For the most part, studies hold that these two episodes of purchasing--QE1 and QE2--were successful, as gilt and other asset prices increased and the program had an impact on inflation and GDP. However, it is hard to conclusively assert the impact of QE on the economy, as the unconventional policy was implemented concurrently with other measures in the United Kingdom and around the world. Keywords: Quantitative easing; large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs); gilts; portfolio rebalancing (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ysm:ypfsfc:231919 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Journal of Financial Crises from Yale Program on Financial Stability (YPFS) Contact information at EDIRC. |
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