Real interest rates and macroeconomic activity

Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-113

  Taylor, Mark P ^a  

^a CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; FINANCIAL MARKET; INFLATION; INTEREST RATE;

EID: 0032726560     PISSN: 0266903X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxrep/15.2.95     Document Type: Article

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