This paper studies the spillover effects of US quantitative easing on emerging market economies. I estimate the spillover effects using Bayesian VAR models for the US economy and a set of emerging market economies. A 1% increase in the Federal Reserves securities held outright has positive and...

The economic crisis that began in 2007 and still lingers has invited comparison with the Great Depression of the 1930s. It has also generated renewed interest in Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's explanation of the latter as mainly the consequence of the Fed's failure as a lender of last...

This paper investigates the usefulness of the money demand relationship in times of unconventional monetary policies by cointegration methods. In contrast to the bulk of the literature, evidence in favour of a stable long run money demand function is presented both for the US and the euro area....