The origin and diffusion of shocks to regional interest rates in the United States, 1880-2002 |
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Authors: | John Landon-Lane |
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Institution: | Department of Economics, Rutgers University, 75 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA |
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Abstract: | This paper is about the behavior of regional interest rates in the United States from 1880 to 2002. The main concern is with the shocks to regional rates. Where did they originate? How did they diffuse? How did the pattern change over time? We show that in the late nineteenth century the main source of shocks to rates on the periphery were shocks originating on the periphery itself. This pattern continued through World War I and the Great Depression. After World War II, however, the importance of disturbances on the periphery diminished and shocks to rates in the Eastern financial centers became the main source of fluctuations in all regions. |
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Keywords: | Monetary union Monetary policy Interest rates |
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