What does the Bundesbank target?

European Economic Review

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1025-1053

  Bernanke, Ben S ^a   Mihov, Ilian ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Bundesbank; Monetary policy; Monetary targets; Structural vector autoregressions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001142831     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(96)00056-6     Document Type: Article

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