Central Bank Design in General Equilibrium

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 95-113

  Bullard, James ^a   Waller, Christopher J ^b,c  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inflation bias; Monetary policy; Political economy; Time consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642326774     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0002     Document Type: Review

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