Equal size, equal role? Interest rate interdependence between the euro area and the United States

Economic Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 506, 2005, Pages 928-948

  Ehrmann, Michael ^a   Fratzscher, Marcel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURRENCY MARKET; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; INTEREST RATE; SPILLOVER EFFECT;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 28244441727     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2005.01025.x     Document Type: Review

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