Monetary Policy Matters : New Evidence Basedon a New Shock Measure /

Conventional VAR and non-VAR methods of identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks on the economy have found a negative output response to monetary tightening using U.S. data over the 1960s-1990s. However, we show that these methods fail to find this contractionary effect when the sample is r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowe, Christopher
Other Authors: Barakchian, S. Mahdi
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/230
Online Access:Full text available on IMF