"When monetary policies are endogenous, the conventional VAR approach for detecting the effect of monetary policies is powerless. This paper proposes to test the implication of monetary policies along a different dimension. That implication is to exploit the policy induced exogeneity of...

"This paper summarizes recent developments in the theory and practice of monetary policy in a closed economy and explains what these developments mean for U.S. dollar policy. There is no conflict between what is appropriate U.S. monetary policy at home or abroad because the dollar is the world's...