Yield Curve Impacts of Forward Guidance and Maturity Extension Programs

by Federal Reserve Board

In 2011 and 2012, the Federal Reserve sold Treasury securities from the short end of the yield curve at the same time it was providing market participants with date-specific assurances that overnight interest rates would not rise. We investigate how these two policies, which had conflicting pricing pressures, were absorbed by the market. We analyze the impacts of sales on the volume and composition of inventories of the Federal Reserve's counterparties,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503287106
• ISBN13: 9781503287105
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.0"