The Cost Channel of Monetary Policy : Further Evidence for the United States and the Euro Area /

This paper estimates the importance of the cost channel of monetary policy in a New Keynesian model of the business cycle. A model with nominal rigidities is extended by assuming that a fraction of firms need to borrow money to pay their wage bill. Hence, monetary policy tightenings increase effecti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rabanal, Pau
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/149
Online Access:Full text available on IMF