The nonlinear phillips curve and inflation forecast targeting: Symmetric versus asymmetric monetary policy rules

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 361-386

  Schaling, Eric ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Inflation targeting; Monetary policy rules; Multiplicative uncertainty; Nonlinearities

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142678986     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0060     Document Type: Article

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