An experimental analysis of the effect of Quantitative Easing

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• Nobuyuki Hanaki, University of Nice
• Thursday 08 February 2018, 13:00-14:00
• Room W4.03 Cambridge Judge Business School.

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(joint work with A. Penalver, E. Akiyama, Y. Funaki)

In this paper we report the results of a repeated experiment in which a central bank buys bonds for cash in a quantitative easing (QE) operation in an otherwise standard asset market setting. The experiment is designed so that bonds have a constant fundamental value which is not affected by QE under rational expectations. By repeating the same experience three times, we investigate whether participants learn that prices should not rise above the fundamental price in the presence of QE (as found in. Penalver et al., 2017). We find that some groups do learn this but most do not, instead becoming more convinced that QE boosts bond prices. These claims are based on significantly different behaviour of two treatment groups relative to a control group that doesn’t have QE.

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