01699cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021459 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513567211 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Unconventional Monetary Policies in Emerging Markets and Frontier Countries. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (71 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 COVID-19 crisis induced an unprecedented launch of unconventional monetary policy through asset purchase programs (APPs) by emerging market and developing economies. This paper presents a new dataset of APP announcements and implementation from March until August 2020 for 27 emerging markets and 8 small advanced economies. APPs' effects on bond yields, exchange rates, equities, and debt spreads are estimated using different methodologies. The results confirm that APPs were successful in significantly reducing bond yields in EMDEs, and these effects were stronger than those of policy rate cuts, suggesting that such UMP could be important tools for EMDEs during financial market stress. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/014 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/014/001.2021.issue-014-en.xml IMF e-Library