Monetary policy, price stability and output gap stabilization

International Finance

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-211

  Gaspar, Vitor ^a   Smets, Frank ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; INFLATION; MONETARY POLICY; PRICE DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036626478     PISSN: 13670271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2362.00094     Document Type: Article

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