Auray, Stéphane; Gallès, Clémentine - In: Recherches économiques de Louvain 74 (2008) 2, pp. 121-142
In this paper, we study the role of habit formation in accounting for the joint behavior of the real interest rate and consumption growth following a monetary policy shock. A VAR estimation on US data shows that following a contractionary monetary policy shock, the real interest rate exhibits a...