Behavioural central bank loss functions, skewed risks and certainty equivalence

Manchester School

Volumn 71, Issue , 2003, Pages 21-38

  Al Nowaihi, Ali ^a   Stracca, Livio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK   (Germany)

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EID: 0142073369     PISSN: 14636786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9957.71.s.2     Document Type: Article

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