Monetary policy and long-term real rates

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 429-448

  Hanson, Samuel G ^a,b   Stein, Jeremy C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Long term real rates; Monetary policy transmission; Reaching for yield

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924592105     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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