Fed funds futures and the news
β Scribed by Adrienne A. Kearney; Raymond E. Lombra
- Book ID
- 105530425
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 638 KB
- Volume
- 31
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0197-4254
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The Federal funds rate is also an ingredient in marc sophisticated measures of monetary policy as described in Bernankc and Mihov (1995) and Strongin (1995). Those measures also incorporate the volumc of nonborrowed and total reserves. 2See, for example, McGee (1995).
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