The Bernanke and Blinder model in an open economy: The Italian case

German Economic Review

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-34

  Chiades, Paolo ^a   Gambacorta, Leonardo ^a  

^a BANK OF ITALY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Credit channel; Monetary policy shocks; Structural VECM

Indexed keywords

CREDIT PROVISION; EXCHANGE RATE; MONETARY POLICY; PRICE DETERMINATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 1342308599     PISSN: 14656485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-6485.2004.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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