Taylor rules, omitted variables, and interest rate smoothing in the US

Economics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-59

  Castelnuovo, Efrem ^a  

^a BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interest rate smoothing; Observational equivalence; Omitted variable; Serial correlation; Taylor rules

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141465164     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00152-6     Document Type: Article

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