Monetary Policy and the Relative Price of Durable Goods /

In a SVAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new-house and nondurables prices. These findings are rationalized via the estimation of a two-se...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cantelmo, Alessandro
Other Authors: Melina, Giovanni
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/290
Online Access:Full text available on IMF