In this paper I study the heterogeneous effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate five types of measures of a monetary policy shock, four of these measures try to correct two possible risks as the endogeneity that a...

In this paper I study effects of a monetary policy shock on industries through Publicly Traded Firms in Peru. For this purpose I elaborate a new measure of a monetary policy shock, correcting two possible risks as the endogeneity that a monetary policy shock may have with the economic activity...

After the switch to a floating exchange rate in 1973, the Swiss National Bank at first adopted annual monetary targets and in the 1990s shifted to a medium-term targeting strategy. In this paper I review the SNBu0092s internal policy analysis, an aspect of Swiss monetary targeting that has...

This paper presents a systematic empirical relationship between money and subsequent prices and output, using US, euro area and Swiss data since the 1960-70s. Monetary developments, unlike interest rate stance measures, are shown to provide qualitative and quantitative information on subsequent...

Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) has transformed Europe and has created an integrated pan-European economy. Much research has focused on understanding this integration process and what benefits and costs it entails. This paper identifies a political economy channel of EMU as the monetary union...

We estimate monetary policy rules in Switzerland for 1981-1997. In addition to an inflation gap, we find that forward-looking rules with output and exchange rate gaps nicely fit monetary aggregates as well as the call rate. We split the sample in 1990 when the Swiss National Bank replaced annual...