The Fed and short-term rates: Is it open market operations, open mouth operations or interest rate smoothing?

Journal of Banking and Finance

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 475-498

  Thornton, Daniel L ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal funds rate target; Monetary policy; Open market operations; Open mouth operations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347129604     PISSN: 03784266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4266(02)00409-0     Document Type: Article

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