We investigate the role of consumer confidence in the transmission of monetary policy shocks from an empirical and theoretical perspective. Standard VAR based analysis suggests that an empirical measure of consumer confidence drops significantly after a monetary tightening and amplifies the...

This paper empirically investigates how business and consumer confidence responds to monetary policy shock. Based on the vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis of the monthly changes in business and consumer confidence and the monthly Federal fund interest rates, the results show that both the...

This study examines how unemployment rate dynamically responds to shocks to consumer confidence, business confidence, inflation and monetary policy. Based on the vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis of the monthly data from 1978:M2 to 2012:M5, the results show that unemployment negatively...