A Scorecard for Indexed Government Debt

NBER Macroeconomics Annual

Volumn 11, Issue , 1996, Pages

  Campbell, John Y ^a   Shiller, Robert J ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542710482     PISSN: 08893365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1086/654299     Document Type: Article

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