What Is the Importance of Monetary and Fiscal Shocks in Explaining U.S. Macroeconomic Fluctuations?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1247-1270

  Rossi, Barbara ^a   Zubairy, Sarah ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BANK OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Business cycle fluctuations; C5; E1; E5; E6; Fiscal policy; Government spending; Medium cycle; Monetary policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051804366     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00424.x     Document Type: Short Survey

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