... BISWorkingPapersbyBorio and Zhu(2008),Gambacorta(2009),Disyatat(2010) and Altunbasetal(2010)allprovideevidence of the importance of whattheycall the “risktakingchannel” of the transmissionmechanism of monetary policy 91.Tobias and Shin(2008a and 2008b)alsoprovide88Forafulleranalysis of howexpanding“safetynets”,notleast monetary easingindownturns,havecontributedtomoralhazardon the part of bothlenders and borrowers,seeWhite(2004).89Reinhart and Rogoff(2009)p14590Forafullerassessment,seeFinancialStabilityBoard(2012)91AlsoseeMaddaloni and Peydro(2010)27compelling ... Introduction The centralbanks of the advancedmarketeconomies(AME’s)3haveembarkeduponone of the greatesteconomicexperiments of alltime‐ultraeasy monetary policy. In the aftermath of the economic and financial crisis which began in the summer of 2007, they ... alonger term price.Evaluation of the near term benefits and longer term costs of monetary stimulusis,infact, the centraltheme of thispaper.Inpractice,Keynesianthinkinghasalmostcompletelydominated the policy agendaformost of the postWarperiod.Thus, the predominantconsiderationforpolicymakers62hasbeen the near term effects of monetary easingonaggregatedemand, and the associatedimpactoninflation....