02183cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017552 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475591330 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Quint, Dominic. Should Unconventional Monetary Policies Become Conventional? / Dominic Quint, Pau Rabanal. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students The large recession that followed the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 triggered unprecedented monetary policy easing around the world. Most central banks in advanced economies deployed new instruments to affect credit conditions and to provide liquidity at a large scale after shortterm policy rates reached their effective lower bound. In this paper, we study if this new set of tools, commonly labeled as unconventional monetary policies (UMP), should still be used when economic conditions and interest rates normalize. In particular, we study the optimality of asset purchase programs by using an estimated non-linear DSGE model with a banking sector and long-term private and public debt for the United States. We find that the benefits of using such UMP in normal times are substantial, equivalent to 1.45 percent of consumption. However, the benefits from using UMP are shock-dependent and mostly arise when the economy is hit by financial shocks. When more traditional business cycle shocks (such as supply and demand shocks) hit the economy, the benefits of using UMP are negligible or zero. Mode of access: Internet Rabanal, Pau. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/085 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2017/085/001.2017.issue-085-en.xml IMF e-Library