Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for World Economics
No 1037:
Monetary Conditions in the Euro Area: Useful Indicators of Aggregate Demand Conditions?
Jan Gottschalk
Abstract: This paper reviews the usefulness of monetary conditions
in the euro area as leading indicators for aggregate demand conditions.
Monetary conditions are measured with the MCI concept proposed by the Bank
of Canada, and with the yield spread. A central result is that causality
runs in both ways between monetary and aggregate demand conditions. The
endogeneity of monetary conditions raises important implications for its
role as a predictor of aggregate demand. It is shown that the information
content of monetary conditions depends on the source of business cycle
fluctuations and on the response of the central bank to those
fluctuations.
Keywords: Monetary Conditions, MCI, Output Gap; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: E32; E37; E52; (follow links to similar papers)
28 pages, April 2001
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