Aspects of the Monetary Transmission Mechanism Under Exchange Rate Targeting: The Case of France
April 1, 1997
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Summary
This paper examines monetary transmission in France using the vector autoregression methodology. Interest rates are decomposed into external and domestic components, and a nonrecursive contemporaneous structure is used to identify the system. Innovations in the external component are found to have a significant impact on economic activity, while innovations in the domestic premium have a statistically negligible effect, suggesting that interest rate hikes in defense of the franc may have had a smaller impact on the economy than usually thought. The paper also discusses some implications of Economic and Monetary Union and provides evidence concerning the importance of the credit channel in France.
Subject: Credit, Econometric analysis, Exchange rates, Financial services, Foreign exchange, Monetary policy, Monetary transmission mechanism, Money, Short term interest rates, Vector autoregression
Keywords: anchor currency interest rate, Credit, deutsche mark, differentials vis-à-vis, DM, EMU, Exchange rates, interest rate change, interest rate differential, interest rate increase, Monetary Policy Transmission, Monetary transmission mechanism, rate, Short term interest rates, transmission mechanism, VAR methodology, VAR model, Vector autoregression, WP
Pages:
38
Volume:
1997
DOI:
Issue:
044
Series:
Working Paper No. 1997/044
Stock No:
WPIEA0441997
ISBN:
9781451974751
ISSN:
1018-5941
