Price-Level Targeting versus Inflation Targeting: A Free Lunch?

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages

  Svensson, Lars E O ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 1842812853     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2601112     Document Type: Article

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