In this paper I study effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate a new measure of a monetary policy shock, correcting two possible risks as the endogeneity that a monetary policy shock may have with the economic activity...

In this paper I study the heterogeneous effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate five types of measures of a monetary policy shock, four of these measures try to correct two possible risks as the endogeneity that a...

This paper analyzes forward-looking rules for Swiss monetary policy in a small structural VAR consisting of four variables. First, the paper looks at the ex ante inflation-output-growth volatility trade-off for a forward-looking policy aiming at a convex combination of a strict inflation and...

This paper provides empirical assistance in forecasting monetary policy in Switzerland. After the introduction, we provide a descriptive analysis of the four cycles of rising interest rates from 1979 to 2003. It is apparent that the individual cycles diverge to greater or lesser degrees from the...

This paper analyzes the stabilizing properties of alternative monetary policy regimes. In practice there is a choice between two broad types of monetary policy regimes: a fixed exchange rate regime or a floating exchange rate regime. In this paper I compare exchange rate targeting with different...

This paper presents a systematic empirical relationship between money and subsequent prices and output, using US, euro area and Swiss data since the 1960-70s. Monetary developments, unlike interest rate stance measures, are shown to provide qualitative and quantitative information on subsequent...