E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

• Dynamic Factor Analysis for Measuring Money

  Staff Working Paper 2003-21 Paul Gilbert, Lise Pichette

  Technological innovations in the financial industry pose major problems for the measurement of monetary aggregates. The authors describe work on a new measure of money that has a more satisfactory means of identifying and removing the effects of financial innovations.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Econometric and statistical methods, Monetary aggregates, Monetary and financial indicators JEL Code(s): C, C4, C43, C8, C82, E, E5, E51

• A Small Dynamic Hybrid Model for the Euro Area

  Staff Working Paper 2003-19 Ramdane Djoudad, Céline Gauthier

  The authors estimate and solve a small structural model for the euro area over the 1983–2000 period. Given the assumption of rational expectations, the model implies a set of orthogonality conditions that provide the basis for estimating the model's parameter by generalized method of moments.

  Content Type(s): Staff research, Staff working papers Topic(s): Monetary policy transmission JEL Code(s): E, E3, E31