Reassessing the Fed's behaviour towards presidential elections

Yoshito Funashima

Applied Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 20, issue 8, 795-798

Abstract: This article re-examines the existence of opportunistic political monetary cycle in the United States using frequency-domain analysis. We reveal the cyclical propensity that expansionary monetary policy emerges prior to the presidential elections.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2012.745925

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