Measuring monetary policy in the UK: A factor-augmented vector autoregression model approach

Manchester School

Volumn 73, Issue SUPPL., 2005, Pages 77-98

  Laganà, Gianluca ^a,b   Mountford, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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EID: 23944437862     PISSN: 14636786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9957.2005.00462.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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