This paper studies the eÞects and the transmission mechanism of unexpected monetary policy shocks in an open economy setting within the context of a VAR framework. It considers an economy with two sectors, a tradable sector and a non-tradable sector. For a given country, economic sectors are...

We analyze several identification frameworks based on operating procedures to measure monetary policy in a small open economy. We use a two-stage non-recursive VAR model to identify monetary shocks. We construct then various overall monetary policy indicators based on different residuals...