流动性冲击、货币政策失误与金融危机——对美国金融危机的反思

本文认为:(1)流动性冲击主要通过资产负债表渠道和资产价格渠道来影响金融市场,正是这两种渠道才使得流动性在金融危机爆发及传导的过程中扮演了重要角色。借款人的资产负债表效应导致损失螺旋和保证金螺旋的产生,造成资产的折价销售,推动了资产价格的下跌和进一步的银根紧缩;(2)房地产泡沫的形成与美联储的货币政策失误、金融市场结构变化、新布雷顿森林体系以及投资者的羊群行为等有关,房地产泡沫破灭是美国金融危机的导火索;(3)金融危机爆发后,美联储通过调整中央银行的资产负债表,推出各种形式的金融创新工具,向金融市场注入流动性,有效地降低了金融市场崩溃的概率。论文最后从流动性管理的角度,对美国金融危机进行了反思。

On the Liquidity Shocks,Monetary Policy Mistake and the Financial Crisis

In the paper the author suggest that:(1)Liquidity shocks make a notable impact on financial markets through balance sheet channel and asset price channel.The balance sheet effects of borrowers cause the loss spiral and the margin spiral,leading to the fire sale of assets,this promotes large price drops and a general tightening of lending.(2) The monetary policy mistake,financial market structural changes,the new Bretton Woods system and the herd behavior of investors led up to the housing bubble,The shatter...