Document Zbl 07675533

Agnello, Luca; Castro, Vitor; Dufrénot, Gilles; Jawadi, Fredj; Sousa, Ricardo M.

Unconventional monetary policy reaction functions: evidence from the US. (English) Zbl 07675533

Stud. Nonlinear Dyn. Econom. 24, No. 4, Article ID 20180088, 18 p. (2020).

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62-XX	Statistics
91-XX	Game theory, economics, finance, and other social and behavioral sciences

Keywords:

asset prices; central bank reserves; inflation; nonlinear models; output gap; shadow short rate; term spread; unconventional monetary policy reaction function

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