TY - BOOK AU - Wu,Jing Cynthia AU - Xia,Fan Dora ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Negative Interest Rate Policy and the Yield Curve T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2018/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - October 2018; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - We evaluate the implications of the ECB's negative interest rate policy (NIRP) on the yield curve. To capture various shapes of the short end of the yield curve induced by the NIRP, we introduce two policy indicators, which summarize the immediate and longer-horizon future monetary policy stances. We find the four NIRP events lowered the short term interest rate by the same amount. The impact is dampened at longer maturities for the first two event dates due to lack of forward guidance. In contrast, in the last two dates, forward guidance drives the largest effects in two years UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w25180 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w25180 ER -