The implications of diversity in consumption behaviour for the choice of monetary policy rules in Europe

Economic Modelling

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 275-299

  Barrell, Ray ^a   Byrne, Joseph P ^a   Dury, Karen ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Consumption function; European asymmetries; Macroeconometric models; Monetary policy rules; Stochastic simulations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037333210     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0264-9993(02)00054-8     Document Type: Article

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