Central banks have embarked on a transition from relative secrecy to relative transparency over the last two decades. This has led researchers to investigate the ramifications of transparency on important economic outcomes. By and large, the results reported have been favorable, favorable with...

This research is concerned with the transmission of shocks among fundamental state variables such as the stance of monetary policy, risk premia, and real output, as well as the S&P stock market index. The paper employs the newly developed technique of generalized impulse response analysis (Koop,...