What do you expect? Imperfect policy credibility and tests of the expectations hypothesis

Journal of Monetary Economics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 421-447

  Kozicki, Sharon ^a   Tinsley, P A ^b  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Changepoints; Expectations hypothesis; Learning; Shifting endpoint

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844417903     PISSN: 03043932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2004.05.004     Document Type: Article

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