How to reduce inflation: An independent central bank or a currency board? the experience of the Baltic countries

Emerging Markets Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 218-243

  De Haan, Jakob ^a   Berger, Helge ^b   Van Fraassen, Erik ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Baltics; Central bank independence; Currency board; E58; E61; F31

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010815795     PISSN: 15660141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0141(01)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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