Did Quantitative Easing spur Bank Lending in the US and UK?

At a time of financial turmoil a few central banks decided to focus on unconventional monetary policy which is called Quantitative Easing. Effects of it are widely debated by policy makers and scholars all over the world. As the Federal Reserve has stopped their post-crisis programs and on the other hand other central banks continue to use this economic instrument it is now more than ever an interesting time to analyze the effects of QE in all regions putting a focus in this book on the effects in the US and UK.