Typical duration of bonds purchased in QE I know that QE involves the purchasing of government bonds by the central bank &quot;printing money&quot; but I am curious about what the typical time to maturity of those bonds are. I.e. the typical time before the central bank is faced with the choice of &quot;un-printing&quot; that money (taking it out of the economy) or doing some more QE.
This paper is a few years old. You might want to look at page 6.
Briefly, it varies by government and across time.
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/quarterly-refunding/Documents/February2015TBACCharge1.pdf