Since 2002,the People's Bank of China has frequently used both quantity-based direct monetary instruments and price-based indirect monetary instruments to promote economic growth and stabilize price level.Specific...Since 2002,the People's Bank of China has frequently used both quantity-based direct monetary instruments and price-based indirect monetary instruments to promote economic growth and stabilize price level.Specifically,this study estimates 13 three-variable factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) models to explore how two types of monetary instruments affect China's economy and price level.Overall,we find that monetary policy has positive effects on China's economy and price level.Second,this study clearly states that the effectiveness of China's monetary policy on the economy has depended on China's quantity-based direct monetary instruments since 2002.Third,the effectiveness of quantity-based direct monetary instruments on China's economy and price level is dependent on the significant and positive effects of quantity-based direct monetary instruments after the 2008 financial crisis.Fourth,the significant and positive effects of price-based indirect monetary instruments on China's economy and price level before 2008 cannot fundamentally change their current insignificant effects on China's economy and price level.展开更多
基金The anthors thank the support from Tianjin Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project(No.TJYYQN19-004)Project of National and Regional Research Center,Ministry of Education(No.ZX20170183)National Natural Science Foundation Youth Project(No.71803089).
文摘Since 2002,the People's Bank of China has frequently used both quantity-based direct monetary instruments and price-based indirect monetary instruments to promote economic growth and stabilize price level.Specifically,this study estimates 13 three-variable factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) models to explore how two types of monetary instruments affect China's economy and price level.Overall,we find that monetary policy has positive effects on China's economy and price level.Second,this study clearly states that the effectiveness of China's monetary policy on the economy has depended on China's quantity-based direct monetary instruments since 2002.Third,the effectiveness of quantity-based direct monetary instruments on China's economy and price level is dependent on the significant and positive effects of quantity-based direct monetary instruments after the 2008 financial crisis.Fourth,the significant and positive effects of price-based indirect monetary instruments on China's economy and price level before 2008 cannot fundamentally change their current insignificant effects on China's economy and price level.
