Italian Economic Journal, Vol. 4, No. 3 (November 2018), pp. 549-566 (18 pages) The monetary authorities of advanced economies have used the Wicksellian distinction between the natural rate of ...

Multiple economic factors influence interest rates. Three types of interest rates, including real, nominal, and effective affect consumers' borrowing and investment choices. The nominal interest rate ...

Our eLibrary offers over 25,000 IMF publications in multiple formats. Updated estimates of real equilibrium interest rates in the euro area, derived from eight prominent methodologies proposed in the ...

We offer a unifying empirical model of covered and uncovered currency premia, interest rates and spot and forward exchange rates, both in the cross section and time series of currencies. We find that ...