Transcripts from the US Federal Open Markets Committee provide, albeit with a lag, valuable information on the monetary policymaking process at the Federal Reserve Bank. We use the data compiled by Chappell et al. (2005b) on preferred interest rates (not votes) of individual FOMC members....

The literature on panel models has made considerable progress in the last few decades, integrating non-stationary data both in the time and spatial domain. However, there remains a gap in the literature that simultaneously models non-stationarity and cointegration in both the time and spatial...

In this paper, the correlation between unemployment rate and real output for OECD countries was analyzed through the application of Okun's Law and unemployment hysteresis 2007-2022. For this purpose, panel error correction, panel cointegration, ARDL Bounds Test and Granger causality techniques...