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The Own-Price of Money and a New Channel of Monetary Transmission

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Michael T. Belongia, Peter N. Ireland

NBER Working Paper No. 9341
Issued in November 2002
NBER Program(s):   ME

Traditionally, the effects of monetary policy actions on output are thought to be transmitted via monetary or credit channels. Real business cycle theory, by contrast, highlights the role of real price changes as a source of revisions in spending and production decisions. Motivated by the desire to focus on the effects of price changes in the monetary transmission mechanism, this paper incorporates a direct measure of the real own-price of money into an estimated vector autoregression and a calibrated real business cycle model. Consistent with this new view of the monetary transmission mechanism, both approaches reveal that movements in the own-price of money are strongly related to movements in output.

Published: Belongia, Michael T. and Peter N. Ireland. "The Own-Price Of Money and The Channels Of Monetary Transmission," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2006, v38(2,Mar), 429-445.

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