Analyzing the Disconnect in Interest Rates
A country's central bank has repeatedly lowered its key short-term policy rate over the past year in an effort to make borrowing cheaper and stimulate economic activity. Despite these actions, interest rates on long-term loans, such as 10-year corporate bonds and 20-year home mortgages, have remained stubbornly high. Analyze why the central bank's policy actions might not be strongly influencing these longer-term market rates. In your response, identify and explain at least two distinct economic factors that could be limiting the transmission from the short-term policy rate to these wider borrowing costs.
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