Do federal reserve policy surprises reveal superior information about the economy?

Contributions to Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Faust, Jon ^a   Swanson, Eric T ^a   Wright, Jonathan H ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Federal reserve; Monetary policy shocks; Monetary policy surprises; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 14944349984     PISSN: 15346005     EISSN: 15346005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-6005.1246     Document Type: Article

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