The Effectiveness of Alternative Monetary Policy Tools in a Zero Lower Bound Environment

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 44, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2012, Pages 3-46

  Hamilton, James D ^a   Wu, Jing Cynthia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Affine term structure; Federal Reserve; Interest rates; Monetary policy; Quantitative easing; Zero lower bound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863012515     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: 15384616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2011.00477.x     Document Type: Review

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