The role of house prices in the monetary policy transmission mechanism in small open economies

Journal of Financial Stability

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 218-229

  Bjørnland, Hilde C ^a,b   Jacobsen, Dag Henning ^b  

^a BI NORWEGIAN BUSINESS SCHOOL   (Norway)

^b NORGES BANK   (Norway)

Author keywords

House prices; Identification; Monetary policy; Structural VAR

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956515329     PISSN: 15723089     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfs.2010.02.001     Document Type: Article

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