This paper extends the ongoing literature on the macroeconomic effects of money supply volatility. We use monthly data for the United States and a bivariate, Markov switching, structural vector error correction (VEC) model that is modified to accommodate GARCH-in-Mean errors to isolate the...

We investigate how key monetary policy instruments and financial regulation affect the banking firm. We take the user cost approach to the construction of prices for financial services and use quarterly data on the U.S. commercial banking sector, over the period from 1992 to 2016, obtained from...

This paper investigates the quantitative implications of real wage rigidities and heterogeneity for two long-lasting puzzles in the business cycles literature: the low correlation between total hours worked and labor productivity and the large volatility of the labor wedge, defined as a gap...