Zha, Tao; Rubio, Juan; Waggoner, Daniel - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2004
There prevails a view that the monetary policy in the Euro area has changed, especially after the European Monetary System (EMS) came into operation in 1979. The goal of this paper is to quantify (1) the extent to which policy regime has changed and (2) the counterfactual effects of such regimes...