Implementation of monetary policy. How do central banks set interest rates?

Handbook of Monetary Economics

Volumn 3, Issue C, 2010, Pages 1345-1438

  Friedman, Benjamin M ^a   Kuttner, Kenneth N ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Announcement Effect; Liquidity Effect; Reserve Demand; Reserve Supply

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650246140     PISSN: 15734498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53454-5.00012-8     Document Type: Book

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