Anticipation and Surprises in Central Bank Interest Rate Policy : The Case of the Bundesbank.

Market reaction to a change in official interest rates will depend on the extent to which the change is anticipated, and on how it is interpreted as a signal of future policy. In this paper, a technique is developed to separate the anticipated and unanticipated components of such changes and is appl...

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Ente Autore: International Monetary Fund
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/043
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF