The federal reserve's large-scale asset purchase programmes: Rationale and effects

Economic Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 564, 2012, Pages

  D'Amico, Stefania ^a   English, William ^b   López Salido, David ^b   Nelson, Edward ^b  

^a Division of Monetary Affairs   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC POLICY; FEDERAL SYSTEM; MONETARY POLICY; POLICY STRATEGY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84868150473     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: 14680297     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02550.x     Document Type: Article

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