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,...

We find evidence that the runs on banks and trust companies in the Panic of 1907 were linked to the Bank of England's contractionary monetary policy actions taken in 1906 and 1907 through the medium of copper prices. Results from our VAR models and copper stockpile data support our argument that...