Regime switching and monetary policy measurement

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1577-1597

  Owyang, Michael T ^a   Ramey, Garey ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov switching; Monetary policy; Sacrifice ratio

Indexed keywords

EID: 10644279757     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.01.004     Document Type: Article

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