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...

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...

We examine the impact of large-scale asset purchases of government bonds on real GDP and the CPI in the United Kingdom and the United States with a Bayesian VAR, estimated on monthly data from 2009 M3 to 2013 M5. We identify an asset purchase shock with sign and zero restrictions. In contrast to...

The paper assesses the communication strategies of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the European Central Bank and their effectiveness. We find that the effectiveness of communication is not independent from the decisionmaking process in the committee. The paper shows that the Federal...

Recent theoretical research has studied extensively the link between wage setting and monetary policymaking in unionized economies. This paper addresses the question of the role of monetary uncertainty from both an empirical and theoretical point of view. Our analysis is based on a simple model...

The paper shows that central bank communication is a key determinant of the market’s ability to anticipate monetary policy decisions and the future path of interest rates. Comparing communication policies by the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and the ECB since 1999, we find that...