Maintaining price stability: How long is the medium term?

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1293-1309

  Smets, Frank ^a,b,c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Euro area; Monetary policy; Policy rules; Price stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141799948     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3932(03)00084-9     Document Type: Article

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