The transmission of monetary shocks in the euro area: a V AR analysis based on euro-wide data

Using area-wide data, we simulate the responses of inflation and real output following monetary shocks in the EMU. We find that short-term interest rate shocks have a significant impact on real activity, but hardly on prices. M3 shows a perverse short-term response to a monetary contraction, which s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jan Kakes, Sitikantha Pattanaik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associazione Economia civile 2000-06-01
Series:PSL Quarterly Review
Subjects:
EMU
Online Access:http://ojs.uniroma1.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/article/view/10350/10255