TY - JOUR T1 - Diminishing Returns of QE from Portfolio Rebalancing JF - The Journal of Investing SP - 106 LP - 111 DO - 10.3905/joi.2018.27.4.106 VL - 27 IS - 4 AU - Jan Willem van den End Y1 - 2018/11/30 UR - https://pm-research.com/content/27/4/106.abstract N2 - 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 ER -