In this paper, we revisit the debate on the effects of monetary policy shocks in the U.S. economy. In a recent study, Gertler and Karadi (2015) suggest that movements in credit costs help to capture the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to the aggregate economy through the credit...

In this paper we provide new insights on the dynamics between monetary policy shocks and realexchange rates in small open economies using a time-varying structural vector autoregressionmodel with stochastic volatility. Identification is achieved using a combination of short-runand long-run...