Has the transmission mechanism of European monetary policy changed in the run-up to EMU?

European Economic Review

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 737-776

  Ciccarelli, Matteo ^a   Rebucci, Alessandro ^b  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; European monetary policy; Gibbs sampling; Time varying coefficient model; Transmission mechanism

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; MONETARY POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 33645132471     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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