Modeling money:

We develop and implement a limited information diagnostic strategy for assessing the plausibility of monetary business cycle models. Our strategy focuses on a model's ability to reproduce empirical estimates of an actual economy's response to monetary policy shocks. A key input to this dia...

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Main Authors: Christiano, Lawrence J. (Author), Eichenbaum, Martin S. 1954- (Author), Evans, Charles 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. 1998
Series:NBER working paper series 6371
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Summary:We develop and implement a limited information diagnostic strategy for assessing the plausibility of monetary business cycle models. Our strategy focuses on a model's ability to reproduce empirical estimates of an actual economy's response to monetary policy shocks. A key input to this diagnostic is a univariate time series representation of the response of money to a shock in monetary policy. We find that a monetary policy shock has only a small contemporaneous effect on the monetary base and M1. Its primary effect is to signal future movements in the money supply. We implement our diagnostic strategy on a limited participation model of money which stresses the importance of credit market frictions in the monetary transmission mechanism.
Physical Description:38 S. graph. Darst. 22 cm

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