CoachQuantitative easing is the purchase of large amounts of longer-term securities, government bonds and sometimes mortgage or corporate bonds, to lower longer-term yields once the policy rate can go no lower or no lower usefully. Its reversal, letting the securities mature without replacing them or selling them, is quantitative tightening.
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Example 1.11 (One purchase, three balance sheets)
The central bank buys USD 10 billion of bonds from a pension fund. The central bank: securities , reserves (of the fund’s bank) . The fund’s bank: reserves , the fund’s deposit . The fund: bonds , deposit . The purchase created reserves and a bank deposit of the same size; it did not create a loan, and the bank cannot “lend out” the reserves to anyone but another bank, where they remain reserves (Proposition 1.2).