Inflationary bias in middle to late transition Czech Republic

Economic Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 367-376

  Filer, Randall K ^a,b,c   Hanousek, Jan ^b,c,d  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inflation bias; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542401917     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2003.10.002     Document Type: Article

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