Are there asymmetries in the response of bank interest rates to monetary shocks?

Applied Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2503-2517

  Gambacorta, Leonardo ^a   Iannotti, S ^b  

^a Bank of Italy   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; BANKING; ERROR CORRECTION; INTEREST RATE; MODELING; MONETARY POLICY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 35349000666     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: 14664283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00036840600707241     Document Type: Article

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