June 1992

The Liquidity Premium in Average Interest Rates

Wilbur John Coleman II, Christian Gilles, and Pamela Labadie

Abstract:

This paper studies recent models of the liquidity effect of money on interest rates to determine if a systematic relationship between liquidity shocks and the economy could affect the average real interest rate.

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