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Real business cycles
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The effect of changes in reserve requirements on investment and GNP
This paper provides evidence on the importance of the credit channel in the transmission of monetary policy. Changes in reserve requirements are used to measure "credit shocks." Reserve requirement changes are often made for regulatory reasons, and hence provide a more exogenous measure of credit shocks than the measures used in previous tests. To distinguish between the "money" and "credit" channels, the significance of the reserve requirements variable is studied in an empirical model that includes other monetary aggregates (either the monetary base or M1). We find that an increase in ...
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The role of the discount rate in monetary policy
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Stock market dispersion and business cycles
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The marginal income tax rate schedule from 1930 to 1990
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Sectoral shifts in interwar Britain
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Overstated effects from tax reform?
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The effect of marginal tax rates on GNP: 1931 to 1985