Monetary responses to financial stress have recently become an important issue in macroeconomic and policy discussions in the USA as well as in the EU. In this paper, the authors study two regimes of monetary responses. While the fundamentals of an economy are assumed to have a long-run...

Vector error correction models (VECM) have become a standard tool in empirical economics for analysing nonstationary time series data because they combine two key concepts in economics: equilibrium and dynamic adjustment in one single model. The current standard VECM procedure is restricted to...

Vector error correction models (VECM) have become a standard tool in empirical economics for analysing nonstationary time series data because they combine two key concepts in economics: equilibrium and dynamic adjustment in one single model. The current standard VECM procedure is restricted to...