Inflation targeting in a small open economy: Empirical results for Switzerland

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 89-103

  Dueker, Michael ^a   Fischer, Andreas M ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Exchange rate feedback; Inflation targeting; Markov switching

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030079994     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-3932(95)01241-9     Document Type: Article

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