Taking stock: Monetary policy transmission to equity markets

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 719-737

  Ehrmann, Michael ^a   Fratzscher, Marcel ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Credit channel; Financial constraints; Monetary policy; S P500; Stock market; Tobin's q

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544277576     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0063     Document Type: Conference Paper

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