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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Format: | Journal |
Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
International Monetary Fund,
2003.
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Series: | IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ;
No. 2003/149 |
Online Access: | Full text available on IMF |