The quest for prosperity without inflation

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 633-663

  Orphanides, Athanasios ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Activist monetary policy; Arthur Burns; FOMC; Full employment; Great inflation; Potential output; Prudent policy rule; Real time data; Taylor rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038521546     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(03)00028-X     Document Type: Article

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