Monetary policy and stagflation in the UK

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 36, Issue 3 I, 2004, Pages 293-318

  Nelson, Edward ^a,b   Nikolov, Kalin ^c  

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

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Great inflation; Monetary policy rules; Output gap; Stagflation

Indexed keywords

EID: 3142711109     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/mcb.2004.0058     Document Type: Article

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