Economic determinants of the nominal treasury yield curve

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1986-2003

  Evans, Charles L ^a   Marshall, David A ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Identification; Monetary policy; Term structure; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548833895     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2006.12.015     Document Type: Article

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