Forward-looking behavior and optimal discretionary monetary policy

Economics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 249-256

  Lansing, Kevin J ^a   Trehan, Bharat ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

Author keywords

Discretion; Inflation targeting; Monetary policy; Taylor rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0142023984     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(03)00187-3     Document Type: Article

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