PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jan Willem van den End
TI  - Diminishing Returns of QE from Portfolio Rebalancing
AID  - 10.3905/joi.2018.27.4.106
DP  - 2018 Nov 30
TA  - The Journal of Investing
PG  - 106--111
VI  - 27
IP  - 4
4099  - https://pm-research.com/content/27/4/106.short
4100  - https://pm-research.com/content/27/4/106.full
AB  - The author shows in a CAPM framework that asset risk can be a serious impediment for the portfolio rebalancing channel of quantitative easing (QE). Investors are less willing to take higher risk when excess returns decline due to asset purchases by the central bank. The reduced effectiveness of QE holds in particular when credit spreads are compressed. This can explain why QE has diminishing returns.TOPICS: Portfolio theory, financial crises and financial market history, performance measurement