Comparison of Monetary Policy Actions and Central Bank Communication on Tackling Asset Price Bubbles-Evidence from China's Stock Market

PLoS One. 2016 Nov 16;11(11):e0166526. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0166526. eCollection 2016.

Abstract

We examine the different effects of monetary policy actions and central bank communication on China's stock market bubbles with a Time-varying Parameter SVAR model. We find that with negative responses of fundamental component and positive responses of bubble component of asset prices, contractionary monetary policy induces the observed stock prices to rise during periods of large bubbles. By contrast, central bank communication acts on the market through expectation guidance and has more significant effects on stock prices in the long run, which implies that central bank communication be used as an effective long-term instrument for the central bank's policymaking.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study

MeSH terms

  • Banking, Personal / economics*
  • China
  • Commerce / economics*
  • Communication*
  • Investments / economics*
  • Models, Economic
  • Policy*
  • Time Factors

Grants and funding

This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [grant number 70821061]; http://www.nsfc.gov.cn/. The author who received the funding is Zhixin Liu. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.