Identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks on exchange rates using figh frequency data
By: Jon Faust ... [et al.].
Contributors: Faust, Jon.
Series: International finance discussion papers ;; no. 739; International finance discussion papers (Online) ;; no. 739.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Board
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "This paper proposes a new approach to identifying the effects of monetary policy shocks in an international vector autoregression.  Using high-frequency data on the prices of Fed Funds futures contracts, we measure the impact of the surprise component of the FOMC-day Federal Reserve policy decision on financial variables, such as the exchange rate and the foreign interest rate.  We show how this information can be used to achieve identification without having to make the usual strong assumption of a recursive ordering"--Federal Reserve Board web site.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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