Historical monetary policy analysis and the Taylor rule

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 983-1022

  Orphanides, Athanasios ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Monetary policy; Taylor rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042575527     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(03)00065-5     Document Type: Article

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