policy shock) and interest rate movements driven by exogenous information about the economy from the central bank (the … information shock). In order to disentangle the effects of these two shocks, we use interest rate changes on days of macroeconomic …

We disentangle the effects of monetary policy announcements on real economic variables into an interest rate shock … component and a central bank information shock component. We identify both components using changes in interest rate futures and … that a contractionary interest rate shock appreciates the dollar, increases the excess bond premium, and leads to a decline …

We study the characteristics of inflation targeting as a shock absorber, using quarterly data for a large panel of …

stability. We model the default of a large bank and analyse the resulting contagion effects. This is compared to a common shock …