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  N°161  
Issue Q1 2020  
The role of carry trades on the effectiveness of Japan's quantitative easing  
Thomas Chuffart
Cyril Dell'Eva
 
This paper investigates how carry trades altered the efficiency of the Japanese quantitative easing policy between March 1995 and September 2010. Monetary policy shocks are identified by means of a data-driven Structural VAR approach. Accordingly, our results rely exclusively on the statistical properties of the data through non-Gaussian identification. We show that carry trades, by altering the portfolio re-balancing channel, have attenuated the impact of the Japanese quantitative easing policy on growth. Abstract

   
Carry trades ; Unconventional monetary policy ; Data-driven structural ; VAR ; Japan ; Keywords
C32 ; C54 ; E5 ; E52 ; E58 ; JEL classification
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