Monetary policy and the information content of the yield spread

Topics in Macroeconomics

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2004, Pages

  Feroli, Michael ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

^b Mail Stop 80 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Business Cycles; Monetary Policy; Yield Curve; Yield Spread

Indexed keywords

EID: 15044350697     PISSN: 15345998     EISSN: 15345998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1534-5998.1156     Document Type: Article

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