Causes of inflation in Europe, the United States and Japan: Some lessons for maintaining price stability in the EMU from a structural VAR approach

Empirica

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 83-107

  Wehinger, Gert D ^a,b  

^a OESTERREICHISCHE NATIONALBANK   (Austria)

^b OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Inflation; Monetary policy; Vector autoregression

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN MONETARY UNION; INFLATION; MONETARY POLICY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EUROPE; JAPAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033917386     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007017032363     Document Type: Article

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