Centralised wage setting, inflation contracts, and the optimal choice of central banker

Economic Journal

Volumn 110, Issue 463, 2000, Pages 559-575

  Lawler, Phillip ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANKING; INFLATION; WAGE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0034025388     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0297.00537     Document Type: Article

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