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Low Interest Rates and Asset Price Fluctuations: Empirical Evidence
Ali, Bano ; Horváth, Roman (advisor) ; Vácha, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis focuses on estimating the effect of expansionary monetary policy concerning asset prices, specifically house and stock prices as they are of pri- mary importance in financial markets. A structural vector autoregressive model is used including data for the Euro Area, the United Kingdom, and the United States from 2007 to 2017. Moreover, instead of short-term nominal interest rate, the shadow policy rate is used to measure the stance of both conventional and unconventional monetary policy. It is useful when policy rates of central banks are at or near zero as it neglects the zero-lower bound. Using both impulse response functions and forecast error variance decomposition, results suggest that higher interest rates are indeed associated with lower asset prices. That is confirmed by including two different estimates of shadow rates into the model and observing the effect for two specific types of assets. More precisely, house prices react almost immediately showing the most substantial decrease for the United Kingdom, while stock prices slightly increase at first and de- crease afterward with similar size of the effect for all areas under consideration. Finally, the discussion of how the monetary authority should react to asset price fluctuations is provided, summarizing the vast amount of literature...
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Low Interest Rates and Asset Price Fluctuations: Empirical Evidence
Ali, Bano ; Horváth, Roman (advisor) ; Vácha, Lukáš (referee)
The thesis focuses on estimating the effect of expansionary monetary policy concerning asset prices, specifically house and stock prices as they are of pri- mary importance in financial markets. A structural vector autoregressive model is used including data for the Euro Area, the United Kingdom, and the United States from 2007 to 2017. Moreover, instead of short-term nominal interest rate, the shadow policy rate is used to measure the stance of both conventional and unconventional monetary policy. It is useful when policy rates of central banks are at or near zero as it neglects the zero-lower bound. Using both impulse response functions and forecast error variance decomposition, results suggest that higher interest rates are indeed associated with lower asset prices. That is confirmed by including two different estimates of shadow rates into the model and observing the effect for two specific types of assets. More precisely, house prices react almost immediately showing the most substantial decrease for the United Kingdom, while stock prices slightly increase at first and de- crease afterward with similar size of the effect for all areas under consideration. Finally, the discussion of how the monetary authority should react to asset price fluctuations is provided, summarizing the vast amount of literature...
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Can Monetary Policy Create Asset Price Bubbles?
Mareček, Jan ; Horváth, Roman (advisor) ; Dědek, Oldřich (referee)
The objective of the thesis is to find out whether expansionary monetary policy creates an upward pressure on asset prices and can thus create asset price bubbles, or more precisely significantly contribute to their creation. In doing so, we test the significance and the sign of coefficient on monetary policy stance indicator as a determinant of real estate and stock prices on 19 OECD countries quarterly panel data since 1980. Further we assess periods of real estate and stock price bubbles and periods of expansionary monetary policy and examine their relationship. The asset price bubbles are assessed on the basis of relevant price indices developments without examining the underlying fundamentals. Based on our results it appears that expansionary monetary policy has a positive effect on real estate prices and can thus contribute to formation of real estate bubbles. The effect on stock prices is ambiguous and mostly statistically insignificant. By examining the relationship between assessed asset price bubbles and periods of expansionary monetary policy we found out that monetary expansion is neither sufficient nor necessary condition for formation of asset price bubbles but also that there is a relatively strong relationship between these events. JEL Classification C23, E43, E52, E58, G12, N10, N20...
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Indikátory finanční nestability v USA a EU
Glovčík, Michal
The diploma thesis deals with financial stability and its indications. In the theoretical part is firstly described the evolution of theory of money in order to clarify the role of money in financial stability. After that the financial instability is defined according to the authors Borio and Lowe (2002) as a rapid credit expansion combined with strong growth in asset prices. The mutual relationship of credit and asset prices is examined, especially how the credit creation of money can contribute to the creation of asset price bubbles. Empirical part analyses the possibility to use volumes of credit and asset prices to indicate financial instability. The empirical analysis is performed on the time series of the volume of credit, residential property prices and stock indices for the USA and the Eurozone. At first the tightness of relationship of credit and asset prices is examined by the rolling correlations and it is followed by testing Granger exogeneity to reveal causal links. Based on the results of the empirical analysis the recommendation for monetary authorities is made regarding the indication of financial instability.
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Monetary policy and asset prices.
Šperl, Adam ; Mandel, Martin (advisor) ; Houštecký, Martin (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to demonstrate why it is so difficult to find answer whether monetary policy should include asset prices into monetary rule and therefore increase financial stability. This is because monetary policy is potentially able to prevent the emergence of price bubbles. However, definition of bubbles is problematic itself, as well as identification, even ex-post. It appears that the inclusion of asset prices in monetary policy can reduce the variability of output, at the cost of increasing variability of inflation. The necessary condition is the ability to influence asset prices through monetary policy and early identification of imbalances. Furthermore, on empirical data from the Czech Republic and the USA is shown in the example of the 2008 crisis, that the central banks can use the warning signals from the market assets (eg. real estate market). But current monetary policy is not focused on financial stability. Macroprudential policy, combined with to some extent discretionary monetary policy represent a real and likely trajectory of future economic policy in the form of a new framework of care for financial stability.
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Cenové bubliny na trzích aktiv
Štěpán, Petr ; Janíčko, Martin (advisor) ; Kovanda, Lukáš (referee)
Tématem bakalářské práce je problematika cenových bublin na trzích aktiv. První část práce definuje o jaký jev se jedná a kde se s ním můžeme setkat. Další část se věnuje podrobně teoretickým přístupům popisujícím vznik cenových bublin. Konkrétně se jedná o psychologické teorie, teorie založené na vlivu centrální banky na ceny aktiv, modely založené na střídání optimismu a pesimismu a některé další takto relevantní teorie. Třetí část práce popísuje, jakým způsobem růst a rozpad bubliny působí na hospodářský cyklus, zároveň je uvedeno několik příkladů bublin z historie. Poslední část práce se věnuje jednotlivým opatřením centrálních bank proti cenovým bublinám na trzích aktiv a následným dopadům těchto opatření (politik).
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