New developments in monetary economics: Two ghosts, two eccentricities, a fallacy, a mirage and a mythos

Economic Journal

Volumn 115, Issue 502, 2005, Pages

  Buiter, Willem H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL BANK; FINANCIAL SYSTEM; MONETARY POLICY; PRICE DETERMINATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 15044346291     PISSN: 00130133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0133.2005.00978.x     Document Type: Article

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